Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:29:02 +0000 From: Mike Zanker <A.M.Zanker@open.ac.uk> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help! Cannot boot system Message-ID: <4.1.19990128181753.0092f1f0@aire.open.ac.uk>
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I posted a message earlier about having upgraded my CPU/motherboard preventing my current kernel booting. I'm silly, so I have no GENERIC kernel either. One or two people were kind enough to suggest solutions but I'm still stuck. Basically, I need to get into my system so that I can compile a new kernel - the system is 3.0-STABLE as of a couple of days ago. I've tried booting with the 3.0-RELEASE boot disk and using the fixit floppy but this doesn't work. The install program asks me to insert a writable fixit floppy and I do so, but the install program clearly doesn't recognise it and keeps asking. However, I do have 2.2.2 CDROMs, so I booted from these and went into Fixit mode. I mounted my root file system (having fsck'd first) and copied the generic kernel off the 3.0-RELEASE boot floppy to it (calling it "generic"). I then umounted and rebooted the machine, letting it boot off the hard disk. I interrupted the boot and typed "load generic" but this failed with the error messages: aout_loadmodule: not a kernel (maybe static binary?) load: can't load module /generic: operation not permitted I'm now at a loss as to what to do. Is there anything I can add to my 3.0 boot floppy to make it boot with /dev/wd0s2a as root? Or am I completely stuck. I'd hate to have to completely re-install again just to get booted, but it would sure teach me a lesson about not keeping a generic kernel handy. Thanks for any help you can offer, Mike -- Mike Zanker, Academic Computing Service, The Open University, UK Tel: +44 1908 652726, Fax: +44 1908 652193 Views expressed are personal and do not necessarily reflect University opinion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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