Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 17:40:54 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current boot hosed on Alpha Message-ID: <15354.56310.774530.100826@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20011120142613.C25869@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20011120192427.A15279@freebie.xs4all.nl> <15354.42708.543789.722566@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20011120141310.A25869@dragon.nuxi.com> <15354.54970.557036.768270@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20011120142613.C25869@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien writes: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:18:34PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Oh, OK. So then he may have gotten screwed if he > > did a buildworld/installworld during the awk experiment, installed > > 'bad' awk, then did buildworld/installworld now & got a loader built > > with the bad awk. Does that sound right? > > > > Wilko. If you can get your machine to boot, copy /boot/loader.old > > over /boot/loader and try rebuilding/reinstalling the loader without > > bothering w/a buildworld. > > I would: > > hit space to get the bootblocks to not load the loader > da(0,a)/boot/loader.old > cd /usr/src/contrib/awk > cvs up -PdA > cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/awk > cvs up -PdA > make obj > make all install You might also want to build the loader & install it at this point too.. After saving off a copy of /boot/loader.old to /boot/loader.good or something. > reboot Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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