Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:41:41 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recovery from terminated make installworld? Message-ID: <b269bc571003181341t5ac05314h9c29dd843197a5d9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <fd9cd3451003181307j3a30acedt28875351cd896769@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100318200329.GC67716@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <fd9cd3451003181307j3a30acedt28875351cd896769@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu>wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk > >wrote: > > > I was in the single user mode doing 'make installworld' > > when the system froze and I had to cold reboot. > > Now in single user mode I get to: > > > > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: invalid file format > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: invalid file format > > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > > > Is there a way to recover? > > Or do I have to reinstall from scratch? > > Try /rescue/sh (or tcsh). It's all statically linked, so you should be > able > to recover from there. > > And if that doesn't work, try a LiveFS CD. And, if all else fails, you can do a minimal install overtop. You'll lose all your /etc settings, but will get a bootable system again. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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