Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:31:44 -0400 From: "John Straiton" <jsmailing@clickcom.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Need help in fixing an unbootable system Message-ID: <PHEMIEFOLOKALAMFPIPCIEHBCBAA.jsmailing@clickcom.com>
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I have a machine that I'm trying to upgrade. It had been hacked into (presumably through the telnetd exploit) and is a 4.0-RELEASE machine. I tried to makeworld on this machine twice, however in both cases (using completely clean /usr/src/ /usr/obj directories) the cvsup would work, but compiling would fail. So I remembered somewhere that alternately, you should be able to install binaries just like during install. So I launched /stand/sysinstall and started a 4.4-RC4 distribution download. After the / download had completed, I got an error about unknown binary elf type on the screen and was unable to do anything. Apparently it began replacing the "live" machine and sysinstall didn't like that much. After rebooting, as soon as the kernel trieds to mount /, it panics and says that "I'm not going anywhere without init". I tried running from the fixit floppy, but I'm rather stuck right now because I don't exactly understand what I can do from there. Suggestions? John Straiton ClickCom, Inc. jks@clickcom.com (704)365-9970x101 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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