recovery from terminated make installworld?

[Justin Hibbits]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk>wrote:

> I was in the single user mode doing 'make installworld'
> when the system froze and I had to cold reboot.
> Now in single user mode I get to:
>
> Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: invalid file format
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: invalid file format
> Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
>
> Is there a way to recover?
> Or do I have to reinstall from scratch?
>
> thanks
> anton
>

Try /rescue/sh (or tcsh).  It's all statically linked, so you should be able
to recover from there.

- Justin