Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:04:54 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: no /boot/loader Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001202200340.13668-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
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Hi, A machine I used to admin has suddenly bitten the dust. The new admin wrote me and said the machine crashed earlier today. He went down to try to reset it and it comes up with: Disk error 0x2 (1ba=0x8f) No /boot/loader >> FreeBSD /i386 BOOT Default: 0:da(0,a)/kernel boot: He says he then gets no response from the keyboard (this may be due to a stupid switch the NT admin is using to try to avoid having separate keyboards for 2 different machines - I've told the present admin to plug the keyboard in directly to see if he gets any response, but haven't heard back yet). Any ideas what's going on here and how we can bring the machine back to life? My guess is they haven't done a backup in awhile (they were bad about that) so they probably really want the disk back. Even though I'm not in charge of the machine anymore, I'd like to help them out if I can. Thanks in advance for any help! Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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