4 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-stableRe: "can't load kernel" after build/i...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Russell D. Murphy Jr. | Jul 25, 2000 9:14 am | |
| John Reynolds~ | Jul 25, 2000 9:21 am | |
| Kevin Oberman | Jul 25, 2000 9:46 am | |
| Russell D. Murphy Jr. | Jul 25, 2000 10:58 am |
| Subject: | Re: "can't load kernel" after build/install world/kernel | |
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| From: | Kevin Oberman (ober...@es.net) | |
| Date: | Jul 25, 2000 9:46:13 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-stable | |
From: "Russell D. Murphy Jr." <rdmu...@knock.econ.vt.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:14:44 -0400 (EDT) Sender: owne...@FreeBSD.ORG
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?
You say you did a buildkernel. Did you specify a kernel name? If not, you can try GENERIC.
Boot to the boot prompt ("ok") and enter "boot GENERIC -s". That should load and boot a kernel named 'GENERIC'. If you specified a kernel name to buildkernel and installkernel, use that name in place of 'GENERIC'.
You can always boot this way, although, if the 'kernel' file exists, you need to so an 'unload' before booting.
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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