From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 29 20:20: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pluto.ipass.net (pluto.ipass.net [198.79.53.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A475815792 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 20:19:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mmercer@ipass.net) Received: from ipass.net (ts10-195-ppp.ipass.net [208.209.104.195]) by pluto.ipass.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA01701; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 23:19:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3700515E.7109D2C4@ipass.net> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 23:21:50 -0500 From: "Michael E. Mercer" Reply-To: mmercer@ipass.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey 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> <19990330133357.M413@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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 Greg, The old aout version gets me to the mount part... (kernel.mercer) The old kernel gives me some input/output read error (kernel.old) The new kernel gives me jsut that one line of input. (kernel) kernel.GENERIC gets me as far as kernel.mercer Thanks Michael Mercer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message