Rebuilding World Problems

[Gavin Spomer]

>>> "illoai at gmail.com" <illoai at gmail.com> 02/12/08 6:13 PM >>>
>On 12/02/2008, Chris H. <chris#@1command.com> wrote:
>> Quoting Gavin Spomer <spomerg at cwu.EDU>:
>. .  .
> > > for some reason. Having said that, I figured I would also have to be
> > > in /usr/src for the "make installworld" step. But I couldn't do that!
> > > Why? I could cd to /usr, but not /usr/src!
> . . .
> > reboot (in single user mode)
> >
> > fsck -p (optional, but a good idea)
> > mount -u /
> > mount -a -t ufs
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^----- this is why you couldn't cd into /usr/src

Yep, makes sense to me now. Kinda difficult to cd to unmounted file systems. ;)
 
> > swapon -a (most cases; optional)
> 
> from note 3 near the end of /usr/src/UPDATING:
> 
>         [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
>                 fsck -p
>                 mount -u /
>                 mount -a
>                 cd src
>                 adjkerntz -i            # if CMOS is wall time
>         Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
>         you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.

Yes, I've been caught red-handed, slacking on reading of the documentation. ;)

- Gavin