Re: Disaster recovery after panic while doing installworld

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 9:36 AM Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 09:27:36 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > I hope to recover it by booting  a live system from a main snapshot, but
> I
> > am uncertain of what environmental variables I will need to set to
> convince
> > the system to make installworld from the /usr/obj on /mnt and install
> into
> > /mnt.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> You can find details in "man 7 build"; probably the
> settings $MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX and $DESTDIR will be what
> you need, you'll find them in the ENVIRONMENT secion
> of the manpage.
>
>
> Good luck!
>
>
>
> --
> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
>

Well, there is more required and, being anxious to get my system running, I
will ask for a little more help.

I tried defining DESTDIR and MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX and fired off a "make -C
/mnt/usr/src/ make installworld, but it failed instantly because it could
not find cc. Of course, there is no compiler on the install drive, so...

I had to define CC and LD to point at the right places, but then I get:
make[1]:"/mnt/usr/src/Makefile.inc1" line 106: A build is required first.
You may have the wrong MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX set. I set it to /mnt/usr/obj and
that is the proper directory. It contains only the directory 'usr', as I
would expect. So I am baffled. Any ideas on what the heck is missing. I'm
feeling a bit nauseous about now.

-- 
Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
Using FreeBSD since 3.1

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