From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 22:24:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 020B537B401 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 22:24:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from DigitalOx.earthlink.net (user-33qs3gq.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.14.26]) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA14900 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 22:24:19 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010209001252.00a1a9a0@mail.earthlink.net> X-Sender: digitalox@mail.earthlink.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 00:24:06 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Scott D Subject: Is it possible to recover from kernel panics? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The other day when trying to write a new device driver, I caused a kernel panic. I know I should learn more about how freebsd works first, but i am plunging in headfirst here as I already have some programming skills. I used my freebsd cd to boot into the emergency live file system, but could not seem to mount /boot to copy the old kernel onto the broken one or otherwise fix things. I had the filesystem broken up into four or five logical partitions on my ide drive, but all /dev of the emergency filesystem would show was the four primaries. I mounted the primary it was on but the entirety of the filesystem would not show up. I never could get /boot to mount or find a solution, so I finally gave up and reinstalled. Is there a way to be prepared or recover from this? I'm sure I'll be doing this again soon... Thanks, Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message