From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 20 21:36:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E761502D for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 21:36:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA14540; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 23:11:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 23:11:14 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor To: Ryan Thompson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no /boot/loader In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Ryan, On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Ryan Thompson wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Brett Taylor wrote: > > 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 Yeah - I figured that. :-) > 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. He wasn't on and isn't experienced enough to even know there is a /boot partition. He's a temporary admin that the dept stuck on when I left which is why I'm getting email now asking to help. :-) > 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. Well, that's the plan but it will have to wait until he's there - I'm 2000 miles from the console. :-) Thanks, 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