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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@misery.sdf.com>
To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: I hosed my system with a -current kernel
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On Tue, 25 Jul 1995, Christoph Kukulies wrote:

> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 25 Jul 1995, Michael Vernick wrote:
> > 
> > > Sorry that I'm not responding to your question, but did you get any
> > > answers?  I've also seemed to have hosed my kernel and need a way to
> > > copy a kernel from floppy back to the hard disk so I can reboot.
> > 
> >   Is "kernel.GENERIC" hosed too?  If not, just type its name at the boot 
> > prompt to boot it instead.
> 
> I have a bunch of kernels in /. None of them works. It's a file system
> problem.
> I'm getting:
> 
> WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
> panic: ffs_write()     (some such)
> 
> The panic happens with whatever kernel I choose.
> 
> 
> I'm trying to build a fixit.flp on another machine 
> now for some hours to no avail. I copied the 2.0.5-RELEASE-CD src
> tree (from the live fs CD) to the disk and try to 
> 
> make RELEASEDIR=/usr/tmp CHROOTDIR=/home BUILDNAME=FIXIT fixit.flp
> (and some other targets which broke here and there).
> And it wiped out my /home dir :-( (grrrr)
> 
> Now I'm trying to build world first and then make relase.
> Making release only resulted in crt0.o not being found at some
> early stage.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> 
> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
> FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0:
> Tue Jul 18 14:49:19 MET DST 1995     kuku@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de:
> /usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS  i386
>