Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome Herman
Hello, I would like to know if it is possible to rebuild world, but without upgrading or even compiling the kernel. The problem is such : I am presently working on a FreeBSD station that seems to have quite a lot of problem, notably with fsck. I am starting to wonder whether this BSD

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:04:04PM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: I would like to know if it is possible to rebuild world, but without upgrading or even compiling the kernel. The problem is such : I am presently working on a FreeBSD station that seems to have quite a lot of problem, notably

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2011-07-26 13:04, Jerome Herman wrote: I would like to know if it is possible to rebuild world, but without upgrading or even compiling the kernel. The problem is such : I am presently working on a FreeBSD station that seems to have quite a lot of problem, notably with fsck. I am starting to

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Michal Varga
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 13:04 +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: Hello, I would like to know if it is possible to rebuild world, but without upgrading or even compiling the kernel. The problem is such : I am presently working on a FreeBSD station that seems to have quite a lot of problem,

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome Herman
On 26/07/2011 13:44, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:04:04PM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: I would like to know if it is possible to rebuild world, but without upgrading or even compiling the kernel. The problem is such : I am presently working on a FreeBSD station that seems

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 02:50:28PM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: [very large snip] So here I am starting to think that my disklabel and fsck are not in sync with my kernel. I've never heard of either of these utilities (bsdlabel/disklabel, nor fsck) having to be in sync with the kernel. My

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome Herman
On 26/07/2011 15:16, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 02:50:28PM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: [very large snip] So here I am starting to think that my disklabel and fsck are not in sync with my kernel. I've never heard of either of these utilities (bsdlabel/disklabel, nor fsck)

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome Herman
On 26/07/2011 13:58, Michal Varga wrote: On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 13:04 +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: Hello, I would like to know if it is possible to rebuild world, but without upgrading or even compiling the kernel. The problem is such : I am presently working on a FreeBSD station that seems to

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome Herman
On 26/07/2011 15:01, Lars Eighner wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Jerome Herman wrote: Hello, I would like to know if it is possible to rebuild world, but without upgrading or even compiling the kernel. The problem is such : I am presently working on a FreeBSD station that seems to have quite

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 04:25:38PM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: On 26/07/2011 15:16, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 02:50:28PM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: [very large snip] So here I am starting to think that my disklabel and fsck are not in sync with my kernel. I've never

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 26, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Jerome Herman wrote: Actually it is Raid 10 of a sort. Three first halves of the three disk concatenated and mirrored on the three second half of the same drives. There's a significant problem right there. Not only will that configuration badly degrade the

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome Herman
On 26/07/2011 16:58, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 26, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Jerome Herman wrote: Actually it is Raid 10 of a sort. Three first halves of the three disk concatenated and mirrored on the three second half of the same drives. There's a significant problem right there. Not only will

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Michal Varga
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 16:28 +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: PS: Whatever that means, please don't get your sources through sysinstall, that monster shouldn't even be present in a seriously maintained FreeBSD installation. Get your sources the proper way with csup:

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 26, 2011, at 8:03 AM, Jerome Herman wrote: On 26/07/2011 16:58, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 26, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Jerome Herman wrote: Actually it is Raid 10 of a sort. Three first halves of the three disk concatenated and mirrored on the three second half of the same drives. There's a

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 26, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Michal Varga wrote: Well, that depends. Probably every single time I've seen someone touching sysinstal in a post-install environment, that OS was instantly rendered as much as good for a complete reinstall. It's just one of those things that shouldn't be present

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome Herman
On 26/07/2011 17:19, Michal Varga wrote: On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 16:28 +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: PS: Whatever that means, please don't get your sources through sysinstall, that monster shouldn't even be present in a seriously maintained FreeBSD installation. Get your sources the proper way

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Michal Varga
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 08:34 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 26, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Michal Varga wrote: Well, that depends. Probably every single time I've seen someone touching sysinstal in a post-install environment, that OS was instantly rendered as much as good for a complete reinstall.

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 26, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Michal Varga wrote: Well, that depends. Probably every single time I've seen someone touching sysinstal in a post-install environment, that OS was instantly rendered as much as good for a complete reinstall. It's just