From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 9 01:50:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3E816A427 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 01:50:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0FD743D46 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 01:50:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 26892 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2005 11:50:40 +1000 Received: from andromeda.lef.com.au (HELO ?10.168.101.24?) (210.8.93.2) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 9 Sep 2005 11:50:40 +1000 Message-ID: <4320EA6A.7010001@meijome.net> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:50:34 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <431DB202.2070603@multideck.com> <20050906152850.GA28262@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <431E2784.3060801@multideck.com> <20050907110659.GA7415@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <431EF065.60308@multideck.com> In-Reply-To: <431EF065.60308@multideck.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Repairing "kernel not found" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 01:50:42 -0000 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...