From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 5 17:16:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA14496 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 17:16:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (root@ppp-128.halifax-01.ican.net [206.231.248.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA14490 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 17:16:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (scrappy@LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.6/8.8.2) with SMTP id VAA24812; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 21:16:17 -0300 (ADT) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 21:16:17 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Frank Nobis cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System no longer finding sd(0,a)/kernel... In-Reply-To: <199708041913.VAA02172@gatekeeper.radio-do.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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