From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 7 13:50:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 888EE16A42C for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:50:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbrier@multideck.com) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [63.240.76.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1204B43D46 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:50:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbrier@multideck.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (c-67-191-212-89.hsd1.ga.comcast.net[67.191.212.89]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2005090713503601100t39pue>; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:50:36 +0000 Message-ID: <431EF065.60308@multideck.com> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:51:33 -0400 From: "Frederick N. Brier" Organization: Multideck Corporation User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas References: <431DB202.2070603@multideck.com> <20050906152850.GA28262@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <431E2784.3060801@multideck.com> <20050907110659.GA7415@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <20050907110659.GA7415@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Repairing "kernel not found" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:50:39 -0000 What is odd is that the machine booted FreeBSD perfectly at least 5-6 times before I ran into the weird "ps" error and then it would not boot. I still need to figure out what caused the problem in the first place. For the moment, is there a way to reinstall just the core 5.4 kernel distribution files, but not anything else? Is it legitimate to do a recursive copy of all the boot files on the CD, ie: /dist/boot to the twed1s1a slice's /boot directory. Then I do the boot0cfg and disklabel command and then fixes any boot manager config files. Would that work? Fred. Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >On 2005-09-06 19:34, "Frederick N. Brier" wrote: > > >>More info. If I "ls" either before or after setting the bootpath or >>module_path environment variables, the response is: "open '/' failed: >>no such file or directory". The "load kernel" command returns: "can't >>file 'kernel'". Do I need to load a module so that the 3Ware drive >>"twe" is loaded? The loaddev and currdev variables are both set to >>"disk1s1a:" Thank you again. >> >> > >Hmmm, isn't it a job of the system BIOS to present a "disk" from the twe >controller? Not sure why this would fail; I haven't used twe so far. > > > > >