From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 13 02:39:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68DD516A41B for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:39:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.239]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F4A13C458 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:39:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so4554693wxd.7 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:39:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=BpbP2CZXGdh/Lnu3m2XtVYbDcsT0f9hYXLDcp5yZUFc=; b=cnu2RX6GJWYZo4yQsYZ3Pe/QJ+rOHaeNI+Yp3eeAPR5ml73ykwJZ7CVR821YBLtUZOH3rsKQmhxs70M5ncUSE3Ur69zxbBiJLenY38kW5qoa3IQHSVOeHJ47Uk6cQTvxw8w2n8b3iFmm8lGFH1UMlwMTPbgmpQHiduQnkMDqy74= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Gbd22z0XGSjFScQnkNkCyJiSaOZg6IrPSCYAk11jl0evBuLnOjIGbZAMSMzTm5Q5eCdM9C+4vGS09W0aFAngLLcmHgVWS1QIjYNtum7Amv17LvHHTQ/3LSbXNNMBm5GETxwh1AcwKh6DysHesqW4pHXoTty5/aNXOkBNMDmijME= Received: by 10.141.162.16 with SMTP id p16mr1460130rvo.243.1202868803304; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:13:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.141.7 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:13:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:13:23 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Chris H." In-Reply-To: <20080212163457.sg35fvnbsgsg4s8w@webmail.1command.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47B161630200009000013D1B@hermes.cwu.edu> <20080212163457.sg35fvnbsgsg4s8w@webmail.1command.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Gavin Spomer Subject: Re: Rebuilding World Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:39:39 -0000 On 12/02/2008, Chris H. wrote: > Quoting Gavin Spomer : . . . > > for some reason. Having said that, I figured I would also have to be > > in /usr/src for the "make installworld" step. But I couldn't do that! > > Why? I could cd to /usr, but not /usr/src! . . . > reboot (in single user mode) > > fsck -p (optional, but a good idea) > mount -u / > mount -a -t ufs ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^----- this is why you couldn't cd into /usr/src > swapon -a (most cases; optional) from note 3 near the end of /usr/src/UPDATING: [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do fsck -p mount -u / mount -a cd src adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. -- --