Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 23:21:50 -0500 From: "Michael E. Mercer" <mmercer@ipass.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! I royally screwed things up. 3.1 KERNEL just hangs. Message-ID: <3700515E.7109D2C4@ipass.net> References: <37004193.D39D708@ipass.net> <19990330130004.J413@lemis.com> <370046FB.EF84A0D7@ipass.net> <19990330133357.M413@lemis.com>
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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
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