From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 26 1:43:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kabel203069.kabel.utwente.nl (kabel203069.kabel.utwente.nl [130.89.203.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95CA37B403 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 01:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by kabel203069.kabel.utwente.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 238FA1F2B; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:43:33 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:43:32 +0200 From: Rogier Steehouder To: Matt Lazarou Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: regarding freebsd Message-ID: <20011026104332.A4459@localhost> Mail-Followup-To: Rogier Steehouder , Matt Lazarou , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20011025202214.C970@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@lazarou.org on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:38:41AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26-10-2001 01:38 (+0200), Matt Lazarou wrote: > Thanx for replying however i solved the problem last night. It was: > 1:ad(1,a)/kernel > I than did a fsck and it automatically rebooted into the X server for me. > > However i now have a new problem. the commands: top, top -d1, xterm -e > top, systat -vmstat, systat -i, systat -mbufs etc etc dot work no more. > Why is this: i get the message: geek@unixpros:/usr/home/geek$ top > top: nlist failed > i get that message when i try the other commands. > > Any help on how i can fix this problem even if it takes two days is truely > apperciated. Thank you hope to hear from you soon. These commands are tightly linked to the kernel. The only thing I can think of is that the kernel is older/newer than the rest of the system, but I am not sure. With kind regards, Rogier Steehouder > -----Original Message----- > From: Rogier Steehouder > To: Matt Lazarou > Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:22:15 +0200 > Subject: Re: regarding freebsd > > > On 23-10-2001 23:02 (+0200), Matt Lazarou wrote: > > > Hi There, > > > > > > I had my FreeBSD box running for 26 days when i got home from work > > today > > > the system was frozen so i killed the x server and it wouldn't let me > > > relogin in. Now when i restarted my computer... and tryed booting > > back > > > into FreeBSD i got the message: > > > FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > > > Default: 0:ad0(0,a),a > > > Boot: > > > > > > Also the message invaild partition however the core os of the system > > is > > > installed on ad1 my secondary drive. Any clue what i should type to > > fix > > > the problem i tryed: > > > ad1(1,a)/kernel > > > nothing any help would be apperciated. > > > > It's a bit late, but try ad1(0,a)/kernel. As I understand it the device > > name translates as: > > /dev/ad0s1a -> ad0(0,a) > > /dev/ad1s2f -> ad1(1,f) etc. -- ___ _ -O_\ // | / Rogier Steehouder //\ / \ r.j.s@gmx.net // \ <---------------------- 25m ----------------------> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message