Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:08:35 +0000 From: "clayton rollins" <crollins666@hotmail.com> To: noname2796@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VERY stupid n00b thing to do Message-ID: <Sea1-F16DBheKSlXboN00007741@hotmail.com>
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On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:08:19 "Jesse Wilson" <noname2796@yahoo.com> wrote: > >Well here's my dumb newbie mistake. > >I desperately needed to compile disk quota support into my server in a >hurry so I went to the manual and read through real quick, went to the >/sys dir where the kernels are and saw two kernels, generic, the one >that was installed, and lint, the one that already had quota support >turned on. > >So I made, compiled, installed, and rebooted with the LINT kernel. > >The worst part is that this server is at a colo facility and I'm hoping >that I can get the support crew there to reboot the server to kernel.old >but it's been an hour with a completely dead server and no response, and >it's 10 at night so who knows if they even have anyone there right now, >even though they say that they have 24x7 support. > >If there happens to be anyone else out there, who like me, didn't know >what the LINT kernel is, it's a non working kernel that apparently has >every single option turned on or something. > >I guess that I should have googled for "lint kernel" before I tried >installing it. :-/ > >Jesse > chapter 9, section 6, of the handbook describes the steps to revert to the last working kernel. See it here: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-trouble.html Peace, Clayton _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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