recovery from terminated make installworld?

[Garrett Cooper]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:08 PM, krad <kraduk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 18 March 2010 20:41, Freddie Cash <fjwcash at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > 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?
>> >
>> > Try /rescue/sh (or tcsh).  It's all statically linked, so you should be
>> > able
>> > to recover from there.
>> >
>> > And if that doesn't work, try a LiveFS CD.
>>
>> And, if all else fails, you can do a minimal install overtop.  You'll lose
>> all your /etc settings, but will get a bootable system again.
>>
>> --
>> Freddie Cash
>> fjwcash at gmail.com
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>
> easier and less risky to boot in on some form of live cd, mount all the fs
> up under /mnt, set the DESTDIR=/mnt and continue the installworld

Yes, this is the easiest way to do things:

1. Boot live CD, USB, w/e.
2. mount all of your filesystems.
3. make -C $DESTDIR/usr/src installworld DESTDIR=$DESTDIR

No loss of data. But given that you've already done the reinstall, I
suppose there's no way to go back now :/...
-Garrett