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Subject: trying to fix missing /boot/loader error, no luck
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I'm only asking this 'cos I searched the FreeBSD mailing lists and
nothing I found seems to work.

It all started when I got an error trying to run top: "nlist failed".
There were 2 possible issues, #1 kernel & userland not sync'd, which was
unlikely since this was a fresh install, and #2 bypassing /boot/loader
which I'm sure is the cause 'cos I get the message on bootup.

So I tried a few things, notably "disklabel -B ad0" and "boot0cfg -Bv
ad0". I rebooted after each and I still get the "no /boot/loader" and
"meta data missing" errors. If I do a dir of /boot, I can see loader and
a bunch of other things. I then tried using sysinstall to replace the
MBR and then tried "boot0cfg -Bv ad0" but still no luck.

So, I'm stuck. I would appreciate someone educating me in this regard.

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