From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 11 12:32:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stargate.clickcom.com (stargate.clickcom.com [209.198.22.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDD537B409 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:32:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fishbowl (dhcp-1.clt.clickcom.com [209.198.22.65]) by stargate.clickcom.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id S4TWDL70; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:32:10 -0400 Reply-To: From: "John Straiton" To: Subject: Need help in fixing an unbootable system Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:31:44 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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