help - hosed my system -need -current kernel

[Lee Mx]

>From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku at kukulies.org>
>To: freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
>Subject: help - hosed my system -need -current kernel
>Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:21:57 +0100
>
>I did a build world (make world) on a today's -current cvsup - maybe I
>should have done buildworld or something that works smoother.

cvsup
make buildworld
make buildkernel
make installkernel
reboot
make installworld
mergemaster

Is the way to go, I think.  I had a very similar problem to yours
on one machine but I had another that I did as above so I just
copied the new kernel form the machine that was update correctly
to the one I had screwed up.  It then ran fine but since I hadn't
finished an installworld I still seemed to have binaries that
gave me a signal 11 so I couldn't do an installworld.  I just
used scp -rp and copied /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /lib /usr/lib
from the good machine and everything worked perfectly.  I was then
able to do a new cvsup - make world and kernel with no problem.
I've been updating it daily just to be sure.

I hope this helps.

>
>Anyway I was nearly through  wothout a kernel been built yet
>and the binaries were already installed. You know what happens then.
>invalid system call and core dumps on nearly every /bin/binary.
>
>I had planned in case of failure to counter this by booting a live CD, 
>mount
>the source tree and get through building a new kernel from a mounted
>src environment.
>
>But the 5.0 system I had on CD had problems recognizing my
>second FreeBSD partition on the bay drive of my Dell Inspiron 8000.
>I could mount /dev/ad2s1 (ad2s2 is a NTFS) and it did not see
>/dev/ad2s3 (Under 5.1 and 5.1-current I was able to mount /dev/ad2s3)
>
>Anyway, what I urgently need is a -current kernel with a /boot
>or any other advice to pull myself by my own hairs out of this soup?
>
>Can anybody help me?
>
>--
>Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_physik.rwth-aachen.de
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