From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 4 10:53:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA15687 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 10:53:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (root@ppp-185.halifax-01.ican.net [206.231.248.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA15676 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 10:53:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (scrappy@LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.6/8.8.2) with SMTP id OAA21402 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 14:13:32 -0300 (ADT) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 14:13:32 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker Reply-To: scrappy@trends.ca To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: System no longer finding sd(0,a)/kernel... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi... I have a remote system that is running an older 2.2-CURRENT that has suddenly decided to not boot, and am wondering if anyone can make a comment on the cause... Since its remote, my information is limited, but from the gentleman that acted as my eyes/hands, if, at the boot: prompt, he did nothing, the system came back with an error about not finding /kernel, as it did if he typed in sd(0,a)/kernel... Unfortunately, altho it is very limited information, its all I have :( I have a friend going to the office with a new motherboard/CPU as well as a brand new hard drive to replace the root drive...so more then anything, I'm wondering what the chances are that I'll be able to recover anything off that other drive...like, what are the chances that the problem was merely an 'fsck' that removed /kernel, but left the other file systems in tack :( Please respond to my Reply-To:, as the system that all my FreeBSD mailing list stuff goes to happens to be the system that is down :( Thanks... Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org