From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 17 14:34:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C64E037B53D for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:34:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA09105; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:34:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA73569; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:33:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000715132554.A31976@mashed.turnip.org.uk> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Jonathan Vaughan Subject: RE: installworld failure (sys/boot/mbr) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > -- > Jonathan Vaughan > jonathan@turnip.org.uk > PGP Key ID: 0x0AF58107 > http://home.clara.net/turnip/pgp.txt | jon@pgpkey.turnip.org.uk | keyservers -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message