Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:03:21 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> Cc: Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installworld fails Message-ID: <3E481399.5040900@potentialtech.com> References: <200302092151.18233.dgw@liwest.at> <200302101922.33625.dgw@liwest.at> <20030210194135.GA6146@raggedclown.net> <200302102153.08112.dgw@liwest.at>
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Daniela wrote: > On Monday 10 February 2003 20:41, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > >>On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 07:22:33PM +0100, Daniela wrote: >> >>>On Sunday 09 February 2003 23:59, Mike Meyer wrote: >>> >>>>And how exacly are you doing that. What commands have you issued, etc. >>>> >>>>Looks like you forgot to reboot after doing the installkernel, but >>>>it's hard to say for sure unless you tell us what you did. >>> >>>I did the following: >> >>2 steps missing... >> >> >>>make buildworld >>>make buildkernel >>>make installkernel >>>< reboot into single user mode > >> >> mount -a >> >> >>>mergemaster -p >>>make installworld >> >> mergemaster > > 2. There was no need for "mount -a", everything was mounted. Then you weren't in single user mode. Single user mode mounts the / partition as read-only. If you failed to do a 'mount -a' (which will remount it read/write) everything else will definately fail. Do you have a "one big partition" system? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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