Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 21:16:17 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Frank Nobis <fn@gatekeeper.radio-do.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System no longer finding sd(0,a)/kernel... Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970805211518.19551Z-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199708041913.VAA02172@gatekeeper.radio-do.de>
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On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Frank Nobis wrote:
> >
> > Hi...
> >
> > 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 :(
> >
> Have you or your extended eye/hand tried ? to look whats in the /
> directory? Maybe a kernel.old or kernel.GENERIC is available to boot.
It looks like the motherboard was fried...I had a friend pop in
on Monday, to replace the motherboard and root drive, and when he powered
up, it came up farther then before :(
Oh well...it forced me to upgrade to a P166 with 128meg of RAM :)
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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