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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
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Subject: Re: System no longer finding sd(0,a)/kernel...
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On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> 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 :(

  Actually, I've seen this before.  Basically should try the 2.2.2 boot
and fixit disk and try a fsck on sd0a.  If that succeeds chances are you
will find most of / in /lost+found and will you need to sort through this.

> 	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 
> 
> 
> 

Tom