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Date:      Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:33:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Jonathan Vaughan <jonathan@turnip.org.uk>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: installworld failure (sys/boot/mbr)
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000717143337.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000715132554.A31976@mashed.turnip.org.uk>

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On 15-Jul-00 Jonathan Vaughan wrote:
> I have a problem updating to 4.0-STABLE from 4.0-STABLE as of a couple
> of weeks ago.
> 
> I did a make buildworld, then buildkernel and installkenrel.  
> 
> The installworld fails at this point:
> 
> chown -R root:wheel /usr/share/zoneinfo/*
> ===> sys
> ===> sys/boot
> ===> sys/boot/ficl
> ===> sys/boot/i386
> ===> sys/boot/i386/mbr
> install -c  -o root -g wheel -m 444   mbr /boot
> install: mbr: No such file or directory
> *** Error code 71
> Stop in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/mbr.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> 
> The "mbr" file indeed does not exist in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/mbr.
> It is however present in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/mbr.

That is the right place for it to be, I don't know why things are
out of sync for you.  How are you running installworld?  (i.e.,
what is the exact command line, etc.)

> Is there a workaround for this?

I haven't seen this before.

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> Jonathan Vaughan
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