"Thomas Mueller" <tmueller@bluegrass.net> writes:
> Is there any way to recover, to compile a custom kernel when the
> generic kernel fails to boot successfully but the installation
> kernel boots, and allows installation of NetBSD?  Is there any way
> to mount the hard disk partitions and run the compiler on syssrc,
> using shell sh, having booted the installation kernel?  Or are too
> many things missing?

It is perfectly reasonable to mount the hard disk partitions and run
the compiler, but you may need a bit of systems skill to do it.

One hint: you will need to run swapctl on most machines in order to
have the compile run succeed -- normally the install system has no
swap configured.

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