From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 2 18:35:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imo-m08.mx.aol.com (imo-m08.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E63837B720 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 18:35:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from MicroDan5@aol.com) Received: from MicroDan5@aol.com by imo-m08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v29.14.) id n.41.9adaa95 (5711) for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:35:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web25.aolmail.aol.com (web25.aolmail.aol.com [205.188.222.1]) by air-id04.mx.aol.com (v77_r1.37) with ESMTP; Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:35:18 2000 Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:35:18 EDT From: MicroDan5@aol.com Subject: Help Booting machine To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) Message-ID: <41.9adaa95.27fa82d6@aol.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello All I recently have acquired a freeBSD machine. The file BSD* was moved from one of the directories and placed in a backup directory. Why? Who knows, but it is now my problem. Now the machine will not boot. When it boots up I recieve a boot prompt, like it is tring to boot search for a file to boot from. I have a boot floppy for BSD, but when I use it to boot, I can not see my hard drive. Further more the image does not have an fstab file or access to the Floppy drive. Does anyone know of a way that I can boot this machine with some utility and get it to see the hard drives. I just want to copy the file back and go on with my life. Or else can I create this fstab file manually. If so what utility can I use to create it. This image that I have does not have Vi or pico. This is a real tuff one. I am hoping there is another way to make a boot floppy so I can boot this machine up and then recopy the file back. I know exactly where it is. I also have another FreeBsd machine that is identical. If I could gain access to the floppy drive may I could copy this file to the ramdrive. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message