I seem to have shot myself in the foot. I ran cvsup, buildworld, installworld, buildkernel, and installkernel yesterday on my laptop as well as my desktop. The laptop will no longer boot FreeBSD; the desktop is fine. The laptop shows:

F1 DOS F2 FreeBSD

Default: F2

BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keryboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 639kB/64448kB available memory

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (ro...@clifden.econ.vt.edu, Mon Jul 24 14.53.22 EDT 2000)

Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key ofr command prompt. Booting [kernel]... can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old'

ok ls open '/' failed: no such file or directory ok lsdev disk @0x10738 disk0: BIOS drive A disk1: BIOS drive C pxe @ 0xe4dc

The machine boots up in W95.

The machine was running 4.0-Stable from a few weeks ago.

I have a script which runs the sequence of build/install steps; the script on the laptop stopped because the laptop was running under a different machine name than usual and so the script did not find the kernel config file. I ran buildkernel and installkernel by hand for my kernel config file and for GENERIC. I believe I followed the UPDATING instructions (but something's not working, so I probably missed something).

Any suggestions?

Thanks-

Russ Murphy

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