Error on firefox installation from port.

**melopll** · 09-23-2005

Originally Posted by jaboua

If you can't login, try getting a FreeSBIE cd, umounting all drives, mounting them into a directory, chrooting, fixing from the inside...

I am sorry... not so advanced. I beleive I'll need a little more help on this.

Thanks

**jaboua** · 09-24-2005

Do you have a freesbie livecd? In that case, you can start up, choose between xfce/fluxbox/pure terminal enviroment (tcsh), IIRC freesbie automounts all recognised drives, so umount the freebsd ones like this:

Code:

umount /mnt/ufs.*

Then you can mount them into their right position, for example like this:

Code:

mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt/ufs.1
mount /dev/ad0s1d /mnt/ufs.1/var
mount /dev/ad0s1e /mnt/ufs.1/tmp

Then you chroot into the enviroment to fix it from the inside:

Code:

chroot /mnt/ufs.1

Then you can fix your problem from the inside, for example by trying reinstalling the kernel.

If you don't have a freesbie livecd, I belive the freebsd installcd does have the ability to drop to console, and follow almost the same procedure (except partitions not needed to be unmounted, and that the mountpoint has to be created ["mkdir /mnt/ufs.1"]).

**melopll** · 09-24-2005

Yes, I have FreeSBIE on CD, so I'll follow your instructions.
Thanks

PS. could You tell me a little more on how to reinstall the kernel?

**jaboua** · 09-24-2005

You recompile the kernel if the kernel build was faulty (like it may have been when you got that error). Replace the word "KERNELNAME" with the name of your custom kernel. If you don't got any custom kernel config, use "GENERIC".

Code:

cd /usr/src
make buildkernel KERNCONF=KERNELNAME
make installkernel KERNCONF=KERNELNAME

I haven't rebuilt world before so I'm not quite sure on this, but you can just follow the handbook.

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