From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 25 04:33:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F1916A4CE for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 04:33:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (thunder.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7251B43D2D for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 04:33:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steven@my-letter-box.com) Received: from SKYWALKER (dsl-203-33-162-46.NSW.netspace.net.au [203.33.162.46]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with SMTP id D2960427E3 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 21:33:15 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <002601c4424c$1295ee60$6400a8c0@SKYWALKER> From: "Steven McMaster" To: Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 21:33:16 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: buildworld/installworld failure 5.2.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 11:33:30 -0000 I am in a spot of bother.=20 I have successfully buildworld, buildkernel and installkernel on = 5.2.1-RELEASE... but when i came to installworld i ran into a problem.=20 I now know that this was a simple problem with the Makefile, but = unfortunately i cannot go back. i am now trying to boot into my old kernel [5.0-RELEASE-p18] and the = kernel is crashing with; "init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user = mode" cool...well at least it gives me a shell. going by the boot dump... the last message before crashing is 'mounting = root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a' i run a fsck on ad0s1a and it looks good. any ideas?=20