From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 8 18:56:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA00546 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 18:56:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (ala-ca34-30.ix.netcom.com [207.93.143.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA00529 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 18:56:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.8/8.6.9) id RAA28665; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 17:17:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 17:17:43 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199801090117.RAA28665@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: francis@cody.usls.edu CC: FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Francis Vidal on Thu, 8 Jan 1998 08:18:53 +0800 (PHT)) Subject: Re: 2.2-STABLE kernel From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk * cc: FreeBSD Questions Don't send questions to two lists please. * i CVSUPed a fresh copy of src-sys with the tag RELENG_2_2 (i erased my * /usr/src/sys) and found out that it made 2 directories in /usr/src. it * created 'lkm' and 'sys' (of course, because i deleted it). what's the * 'lkm' directory for? * * anyways, i successfuly compiled the kernel using my OLD conf file. the * problem is, the kernel won't boot! it just keeps on rebooting! Well, you just answered your question: the lkm's are out of date! Boot with -s, do a "fsck -p" and "mount -a -t ufs", then edit /etc/rc.conf to disable lkms (screen savers, linux emul, etc.). Satoshi