I tried to upgrade from freebsd4.3 to freebsd
4.6.
all was going well. I pressed some wrong keys and
thought I would be able to start the process again, but alas I am no nonger able
to boot up.
Firstly I received a message: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for /dev/ttyv0:
no such file or directory
Following an artilce from OReilly Information\BSD
Tricks Unprepared Disaster Recovery\1.htm I proceeded to use the fixit
disk.
when you firstly use the fixit disk you get an
instruction: recommend symlinking
/mnt/etc/group and /mnt/etc/*pwd.db to
/etc.
This
did not work as I get /mnt/etc/group not
found.
Following the article I tried to reinstall 4.3 over the top of the
existing partitions no I get a message at boot up:init can't get /dev/console
for controlling terminal: Device not configured.
How
do I use the fixit floopy to correct these problems or do I delete all
partitions and start again and then download the latest release 4.6 and
makeworld again?
Thanks,
Ivan