On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 1:15 AM Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2024-05-03, Amit Kulkarni <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Referring to the existing email chain on bugs@ > > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=171468519914343&w=2 > > > > Unable to boot to a prompt. How do I recover by booting an older kernel? > > There is no /obsd to try out. > > sysupgrade doesn't save old kernels (and it would be problematic if > it did, space on / often gets tight) so you'll need to find one from > elsewhere (openbsd.cs.toronto.edu and ftp.hostserver.de carry old > snapshots in an archive directory) and install it using either your > existing bsd.rd (if it works) or by booting from a downloaded install > img/iso or network boot a downloaded bsd.rd. > > Thanks a lot, was able to recover just by using bsd.rd and downloading all new kernels first. Now going to download a fresh set of binaries to keep them all in sync. Amit
