VERY stupid n00b thing to do

[Jesse W.]

Oh I didn't have a problem changing kernels once
the server was live again, I just don't have
physical access to the machine so my only problem
was waiting 2 hours for support to reboot the
machine to kernel.old

Then I did it the correct way and just copied the
generic kernel config and only added the options
QUOTA line that I needed.

I'd just never heard of a LINT kernel being new
to FreeBSD... if Linux has one I never noticed
it.  Thing should come with a big warning label
for dummies like me :)

Jesse

--- clayton rollins <crollins666 at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:08:19 "Jesse Wilson"
> <noname2796 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >Well here's my dumb newbie mistake.
> >
> >I desperately needed to compile disk quota
> support into my server in a
> >hurry so I went to the manual and read through
> real quick, went to the
> >/sys dir where the kernels are and saw two
> kernels, generic, the one
> >that was installed, and lint, the one that
> already had quota support
> >turned on.
> >
> >So I made, compiled, installed, and rebooted
> with the LINT kernel.
> >
> >The worst part is that this server is at a
> colo facility and I'm hoping
> >that I can get the support crew there to
> reboot the server to kernel.old
> >but it's been an hour with a completely dead
> server and no response, and
> >it's 10 at night so who knows if they even
> have anyone there right now,
> >even though they say that they have 24x7
> support.
> >
> >If there happens to be anyone else out there,
> who like me, didn't know
> >what the LINT kernel is, it's a non working
> kernel that apparently has
> >every single option turned on or something.
> >
> >I guess that I should have googled for "lint
> kernel" before I tried
> >installing it. :-/
> >
> >Jesse
> >
> 
> chapter 9, section 6, of the handbook describes
> the steps to revert to the 
> last working kernel. See it here: 
>
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-trouble.html
> 
> Peace,
> Clayton
> 
>
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