Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 01:38:32 +1300 (NZDT) From: Phillip Hardy <phillip@sis.bytes.gen.nz> To: Mike Zanker <A.M.Zanker@open.ac.uk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Celeron 333 kernel panic Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901290135090.1200-100000@sis> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990128120838.00b2e350@aire.open.ac.uk>
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On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Mike Zanker wrote: > OK, I've been very, very silly and not kept a GENERIC kernel around and > cannot boot with my existing kernel. Is there some way of booting from > floppy (e.g. boot.flp from 3.0-RELEASE or 3.0-SNAP) and copying a GENERIC > kernel to my existing root partition. I should be very grateful if someone > could point me in the direction of any documentation. > Hi Mike Tryed usering Fixit floppy... useing the fixit floppy you can then mount your root filesystem.. and start mounting other filesystems like /var /usr etc. and then goto /usr/src/sys/i386/conf edit your hostnamefile.. Add 686 support config hostname ; cd ../../compile/hostname make clean ; make depend ; make ; make install Reboot (x fingers) and hopefully you will be back with us) Phill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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