On 21-Apr-01 David W. Chapman Jr. wrote:
> I just tried to do an installkernel on a new kernel I built and I got the
> same error except the last line changed to
>
> stopped at ffs_dirpref+0x210 movzbl 0(%ECX,%EAX,1),%EAX
>
> Do I have any hope at recovering from this or should I start again with 4
> and upgrade to -current. I'm assuming is a problem with the kernel and
> without being able to update the kernel and install a new one, I don't think
> I can fix it.
You need to rebuild fsck and install it and fsck your filesystems. This is the
dirpref changes biting you. Warner, we probably need an entry in UPDATING for
the dirpref changes that warn people to build and install a new fsck before
booting a dirpref kernel.
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