From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 30 14: 6:44 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 2926815BEE for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:06:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mmercer@ipass.net) Received: from ipass.net (ts6-66-ppp.ipass.net [198.78.59.66]) by pluto.ipass.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA26461; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:05:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <37014B46.E4D29077@ipass.net> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:08:06 -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: SOLVED! 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> <3700515E.7109D2C4@ipass.net> <19990330135610.O413@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, Thanks for telling me about PicoBSD, it worked. Also thanks to the PICOBSD project team, you saved me! later Michael Mercer Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Monday, 29 March 1999 at 23:21:50 -0500, Michael E. Mercer wrote: > > 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. > > > > The old aout version gets me to the mount part... (kernel.mercer) > > What's the message? > > > The old kernel gives me some input/output read error (kernel.old) > > What's the message? > > > The new kernel gives me jsut that one line of input. (kernel) > > Just the Copyright notice? Otherwise, what's the message? > > > kernel.GENERIC gets me as far as kernel.mercer > > Have you tried PicoBSD? > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message