On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:37:10PM +0100, Peter Hollaubek wrote: > On Feb 20, 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm tracking 4.7 stable. > > The handbook asks me to: > > go to single user mode and fsck -p (etc ...) > > Can't. > > "/dev/ad2s1a: NO WRITE ACCESS > > /dev/ad2s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY." > > (Mounted RW according to fstab). > > > > after "make buildworld" as single user and reboot also to single user could not > > "cd /usr/src" - ls shows the /usr directory containing only /usr/local and no > > other directories. > > I CAN find /usr/src (and a number of other useful directories <g>) as root or user. > > > > I am next supposed to "make buildkernel # make installkernel". This appeared to --------------------------------------------^
A "#" turns the rest of the line into a comment, I think you mean "&&". So if you did this, you will not have a new kernel. > > work ok (I didn't monitor), but no new kernel appeared in the / directory (I > > still had my 'old' one). > > > > The next step was to be "make installworld" but I have not done this in view of > > the earlier errors. > > > > Can someone figure this out for me and point me in the right direction? > > Thanks. > > > > -- > > Brian > > > > As of /usr/src/UPDATING: > > To update from 4.0-RELEASE or later to the most current > 4.x-STABLE > ---------- > make buildworld > make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > reboot (in single user) [1] Here first do.. mount -a mergemaster -p > make installworld > mergemaster [2] > reboot > > In single user mode only the root fs is mounted by default. So for making >installworld > you have to mount all the slices affected by such a process (usually all other >slices like > /usr, /var), and also, only the system itself boots up, nothing else is started > preventing any problem caused by installing something new under a running old task > in memory. If the new kernel fails you can return to the old one without risking > incompatibility with the old kernel and the new world. Everything in this order has >a > reason :). > -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message