Problems booting my computer

[Christian Hiris]

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On Friday 24 December 2004 11:18, Darksidex wrote:
> A few days ago I tried to compile and install FreeBSD 5.3-p2 from a
> FreeBSD 5.3-p1
> Everething worked until I wanted to make installword. I switched to
> single mode, and during the installation my computer stoped and shaw me
> a error (I don't remember it). I had to reboot, and booting process 
> stopped with some hexadecimal characters and with the string "BTX Halted".
>
> I downloaded the second disc of FBSD 5.3 release, and I could fix the
> disk, and I could copy /boot/kernel directory from cd to my disk.
> But when I try to boot up my computer it stops with this message:
>
> Mounting root from ufs: /dev/ad1s1a
> pid 49 (sh), uid 0: exited on signal 4
> Dec 23... init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated
> abnormally, going to single user mode
> Enter root password, or ^D to go multi-user
> Password:
> Enter full path name for shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:

You can try to run the statically linked version of sh and try to repair your 
system. It's path is /rescue/sh. Possibly ld-elf.so.1 is missing in /libexec. 
I would try to mount the disc2.iso and copy it from there. 

In worst case I would 
copy /bin, /lib, /libexec, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib,
/usr/libexec (eventually /usr/libdata and /boot) from the live-filesystem-cd 
over to your system. Before you start to copy the files over, run the command 
'/rescue/chflags -R noschg *' on each of the paths in question to remove all 
system immutable flags).   

After your have fixed your system, re-cvsup sources and do a rebuild and 
reinstall of world and kernel.

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