VERY stupid n00b thing to do

[clayton rollins]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:08:19 "Jesse Wilson" <noname2796 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Well here's my dumb newbie mistake.
>
>I desperately needed to compile disk quota support into my server in a
>hurry so I went to the manual and read through real quick, went to the
>/sys dir where the kernels are and saw two kernels, generic, the one
>that was installed, and lint, the one that already had quota support
>turned on.
>
>So I made, compiled, installed, and rebooted with the LINT kernel.
>
>The worst part is that this server is at a colo facility and I'm hoping
>that I can get the support crew there to reboot the server to kernel.old
>but it's been an hour with a completely dead server and no response, and
>it's 10 at night so who knows if they even have anyone there right now,
>even though they say that they have 24x7 support.
>
>If there happens to be anyone else out there, who like me, didn't know
>what the LINT kernel is, it's a non working kernel that apparently has
>every single option turned on or something.
>
>I guess that I should have googled for "lint kernel" before I tried
>installing it. :-/
>
>Jesse
>

chapter 9, section 6, of the handbook describes the steps to revert to the 
last working kernel. See it here: 
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-trouble.html

Peace,
Clayton

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