Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:50:34 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Repairing "kernel not found" Message-ID: <4320EA6A.7010001@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <431EF065.60308@multideck.com> References: <431DB202.2070603@multideck.com> <20050906152850.GA28262@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <431E2784.3060801@multideck.com> <20050907110659.GA7415@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <431EF065.60308@multideck.com>
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Frederick N. Brier wrote: > What is odd is that the machine booted FreeBSD perfectly at least 5-6 > times before I ran into the weird "ps" error and then it would not > boot. I still need to figure out what caused the problem in the first > place. > > For the moment, is there a way to reinstall just the core 5.4 kernel > distribution files, but not anything else? Is it legitimate to do a > recursive copy of all the boot files on the CD, ie: /dist/boot to the > twed1s1a slice's /boot directory. Then I do the boot0cfg and disklabel > command and then fixes any boot manager config files. Would that work? I would boot something like Freesbie and make sure I can access the drives + files before wasting any more time trying to get it to boot. If you have a busted drive / controller, you may have trouble booting...
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