From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 29 20: 4:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 148BB1545F for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 20:04:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA28935; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:33:59 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA25833; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:33:58 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990330133357.M413@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:33:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: mmercer@ipass.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! I royally screwed things up. 3.1 KERNEL just hangs. References: <37004193.D39D708@ipass.net> <19990330130004.J413@lemis.com> <370046FB.EF84A0D7@ipass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <370046FB.EF84A0D7@ipass.net>; from Michael E. Mercer on Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 10:37:31PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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