Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:33:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: mmercer@ipass.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! I royally screwed things up. 3.1 KERNEL just hangs. Message-ID: <19990330133357.M413@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <370046FB.EF84A0D7@ipass.net>; from Michael E. Mercer on Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 10:37:31PM -0500 References: <37004193.D39D708@ipass.net> <19990330130004.J413@lemis.com> <370046FB.EF84A0D7@ipass.net>
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On Monday, 29 March 1999 at 22:37:31 -0500, Michael E. Mercer wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> On Monday, 29 March 1999 at 22:14:27 -0500, Michael E. Mercer wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I was running 4.0 current, I decided to cvsup the 3.1 Stable >>> and run that. I did make world and I rebuilt the kernel. >>> >>> Now the system justs hangs when it tries to boot the kernel. >>> >>> I get the first line of output from the kernel, but then nothing. >> >> Can you boot the old kernel? > > I tried kernel.old, kernel, I even had an old kernel.mercer... And the results? > The kernel.mercer is an old aout version and therfore the > mount command fails. You get as far as a mount command? I thought you only got one line of output. What's the last line? You can also try booting PicoBSD (see http://www.FreeBSD.org/~picobsd/ for where to get a floppy) and see what it can recognize. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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