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From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
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Subject: RE: 3.1 chicken-and-egg kernel situation
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 10:33:28 -0400
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What about the "emergency holographic shell" that's created on vty4 (i think
it's vty4).  When the install is complete couldn't you copy the kernel from
there?

-Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dan Langille [SMTP:junkmale@xtra.co.nz]
> Sent:	Wednesday, June 16, 1999 11:42 AM
> To:	freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject:	3.1 chicken-and-egg kernel situation
> 
> I have a box (fred) which on which 3.* would not install because the PCI
> SCSI
> controller was not recognized.  2.2.8 installs without a problem.  3.*
> doesn't
> see the PCI controller.
> 
> I have been provided with a patch which fixes this situation and allows
> 3.1
> to install.  I created a custom kernel with this patch and copied it to
> the
> install floppies.  This allowed me to install 3.1-Release.  However, after
> rebooting,
> I get a "cannot mount root" error (sorry, the exact message is at home).
> 
> I suspect this error occurs because the kernel installed doesn't have this
> custom
> patch.  Does anyone concur?
> 
> My proposed solution is to copy the patched kernel [described in the first
> paragraph]
> used on the install floppies to the root directory.  But how to do that?
> I
> assume I can do that using a fixit floppy and copy from another floppy to
> fred.
>  Either that or just use ftp to get the kernel from my ftp server.
> 
> To compond the problem, the only floppy drive which works is in fred.  So
> I've
> installed 2.2.8 on fred and I'm going to create some 3.1 fixit disks and
> use
> them after installing 3.1.
> 
> FWIW: neither 3.* nor current sees the the PCI bus on my box.  I'll supply
> details
> of the patch if anyone is interested (I'd do that now, but it's at home).
> 
> cheers.
> -
> Dan Langille
> 
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