From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 23:04:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA08681 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:04:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA08676 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:04:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00635; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:05:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:05:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: FreeBSD Questions cc: shegonee@ix.netcom.com Subject: kernel gone (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ouch. Looks like the hard disk bit the big one...unfortunately I am not very good with disk recovery. I'm forwarding this on to questions@freebsd.org, someone there may be able to detail the procedure. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 13:41:13 -0800 From: shegonee@ix.netcom.com To: dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu Subject: kernel gone Doug, I re-build my kernel sucessfully and installed it. However, when I re-booted something went wrong. The boot manager works fine, but it keeps looping displaying the *Boot:* prompt. If I hit enter to see the file I can boot from the only file visible is *lost+found* - it looks like all of my old kernels are gone. I can boot from a floppy and use fixit but I can't seem to mount my hard drive. Question: Is there any way to copy a kernel from another machine to the hard drive while using fixit? How do you access the hard drive while using fixit? What utilities are avaliable? Thanks Kirk :)