/bin/sh terminated abnormally

[Mike Hunter]

On Oct 02, "Didier" wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I just Upgraded my FreeBSD-4.8 to FreeBSD-5.0
> 
> #buildworld
> #buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
> #installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
> 
> all ran fine ... but when I rebooted the computer I got this error message
> 
> 
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad2s2a
> Pid 43 (sh), uid 0: exited on signal 8
> Oct 1 01:07:20: init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc
> Terminated abnormally. going to single user mode, enter full pathname of
> shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
> 
> RETURN gives the same error message .
> any help would be apreciated

I suspect you actually booted your old kernel.  Upgrading from 4 to 5 may
require that you upgrade the boot loader by hand...although I can't find
specific mention of this in UPDATING....oh wait, there it is:

line 1277:

        cd src/sys/boot ; make install                  [6]

Mike "building nvidia binary driver karma"