Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:02:22 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no /boot/loader Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001202152180.91438-100000@sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001202200340.13668-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Brett Taylor wrote: > 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 If I didn't know any better, I'd guess that there was no /boot/loader :-) Seriously, the simple answer is often the correct one. The admin might have accidentally removed some stuff from the /boot/ directory that he/she shouldn't have. Before screaming bloody murder and kicking the machine to a siliconistic pulp, it would definitely be worth the effort to boot from a fixit floppy, mount the root filesystem and see if /boot/loader is, in fact, missing. If it isn't there, it's a relatively easy thing to copy it over from another functioning system. While you're at it, ensure that all the support files are there, too. The following is from a 3.2-RELEASE system: .: total 503 -r--r--r-- 1 root 512 May 17 1999 boot0 -r--r--r-- 1 root 512 May 17 1999 boot1 -r--r--r-- 1 root 7680 May 17 1999 boot2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root 512 Jun 9 1999 defaults/ -r--r-xr-x 1 root 131072 May 17 1999 loader* -r--r--r-- 1 root 5181 Jun 10 1999 loader.4th -rw-r--r-- 1 root 138 Nov 4 17:19 loader.conf -r--r--r-- 1 root 11462 Jun 10 1999 loader.help -r--r--r-- 1 root 171 Nov 4 17:19 loader.rc -rw-r-xr-x 1 root 308278 Jun 10 1999 splash.bmp* -r--r--r-- 1 root 23639 Jun 10 1999 support.4th defaults: total 6 -r--r--r-- 1 root 6012 May 17 1999 loader.conf > 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). Hmm.. I use several DTS units here (sometimes even in direct series or parallel... For example, I have two systems that share two keyboards, and I wanted both systems to be able to use either keyboard. It's a good thing I can get the damn things wholesale :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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