Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:14:48 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0-CURRENT-200608 on a G4 - panic Message-ID: <20060830081448.df213bee.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <44F50C55.5040803@freebsd.org> References: <20060830002232.01cda8ac.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <44F50C55.5040803@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:56:05 -0700 Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> wrote: > Was this with a boot by holding down the 'C' key at power up ? Yes, it was. > If so, it might be possible to try a manual load. Break into Open > Firmware and > > 0 > boot cd:,\boot\loader cd:0 Silly me, I should have thought of that. My only excuse is that it has been too long since I did this :-) Ok, so I got the -bootonly cd to boot, and start the installation. However, there aren't any snapshot releases on FfreeBSD ftp servers out there, only snapshot iso's. And the -disc1 iso wouldn't boot. Suddnenly, I got the idea that I could just swap CD's. And it worked - I could swap the cd, change installation media, and continue the installation. The upgrade installation completed without problems. But when I tried to boot into my FreeBSD installation afterwards, it complained that it could not load the kernel. The reason was easy too see - the whole /boot/kernel directory was missing. Thankfully, we have /boot/kernel.prev Booting from /boot/kernel.prev/kernel worked. Now, what is the correct way to install the missing /boot/kernel directory from the cd? can I just copy the /cdrom/boot/kernel directory to /boot? Or is there another way? -- Regards, Torfinn
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