Make crashes when installing kernel

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 05:17:16PM -0800, David LeCount wrote:
> If you're meaning the make in /usr/obj, yes I can
> understand that one not working. However, it does not
> explain why the one already installed crashes. That is
> the old one which came with 5.0-RELEASE.

It's probably actually crashing when trying to execute the new /bin/sh
that it just installed, but if it got past that it would at least
crash after installing the new make as well.

It might be some work to recover the system from this point, although
if you can find a working cp binary you might be able to manually copy
the new kernel into place and try again from there - if not, your best
bet might be to reinstall 5.3-RELEASE from scratch.

Kris

P.S. Don't top-post.

> --- Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 03:03:37PM -0800, David
> > LeCount wrote:
> > > I just installed FreeBSD 5.0 from cd on a 486 and
> > I'm
> > > trying to update it to 5.3 which is on my better
> > > computer. Following the handbook, I used NFS to
> > mount
> > > /usr/src and /usr/obj from the new machine to the
> > old
> > > one. Then I made buildworld and buildkernel on the
> > new
> > > machine with no problems. Then I went to
> > single-user
> > > mode on the old machine (NFS mounts still valid)
> > and
> > > tried to make installworld. Make immediately
> > crashed,
> > > apparently calling a bad system call.
> > 
> > This is expected.  You're supposed to install the
> > new kernel before
> > you reboot, or the new userland you install (which
> > relies on system
> > calls in the new kernel) cannot run.  This is
> > documented in the
> > upgrading instructions, so I guess you just
> > overlooked it.
> > 
> > Kris
> > 
> 
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