Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:43:02 -0600 From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com> To: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Mike Zanker" <A.M.Zanker@open.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Help! Cannot boot system Message-ID: <007f01be4aee$0e486550$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com>
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Place your 3.0-RELEASE boot floppy in and boot:
0:wd(0,a)/generic
Should do it for you.
Tom Veldhouse
veldy@visi.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Zanker <A.M.Zanker@open.ac.uk>
To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Thursday, January 28, 1999 12:31 PM
Subject: Help! Cannot boot system
>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
>
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opinion.
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