From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 26 5:31:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com (cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com [24.39.27.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EF7B37B401 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 05:31:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx2037703-a.kenner1.la.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9QCV3U98417; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 07:31:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.1 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011026104332.A4459@localhost> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 07:31:03 -0500 (CDT) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: Rogier Steehouder Subject: Re: regarding freebsd Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Matt Lazarou 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-Oct-2001 Rogier Steehouder wrote: > 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. >> > 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 I finally realized last night that what Matt had been doing all this time was selecting the wrong FreeBSD partition in the boot manager. One of his partitions, which is used only for data storage, got inadvertently set bootable in fdisk, and it was that one that he was choosing at the boot manager prompt (since it did, indeed, say "F2 FreeBSD"). Once I realized what he was doing and told him to use F5 instead to boot from the second drive, all was well. -- Conrad Sabatier "The climate of Bombay is such that its inhabitants have to live elsewhere." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message