On 2007/01/10 15:55, Chuck Robey wrote: > Look, as far as emergencies go, I have the orignal Linux OS sitting in > back as a emergency,
boot> bsd.rd then you can do an upgrade install. > I could reinstall everything, or maybe just my /etc/ but could anyone > give me guesses as to what sort of screwup I perpetrated, so as to > keep me from getting logged in? Else, I will probably do this again, > and I really, really like to learn from my mistakes, you know? you don't say which versions were involved, but if you installed 4.0 and then did a 'make build' of -current source, that's one problem - unlike FreeBSD the procedure here is to do a binary upgrade to the nearest -current snapshot before "make build". it's an arm arch:- N.B. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html#20061227 (besides the snapshot install of the system binaries, there will be more to do if you changed your shell to something from packages).

