From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 21:54: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kronos.honk.org (cr13856-a.flfrd1.on.wave.home.com [24.114.34.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4978337BD46 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 21:53:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jearle@kronos.honk.org) Received: from vorlon.honk.org (vorlon.honk.org [192.168.10.10]) by kronos.honk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA03512; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 00:48:53 -0400 Message-Id: <4.3.2.20000407004746.00a8c720@shadow> X-Sender: jearle@shadow X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 00:52:34 -0400 To: Alan Edmonds From: Jon Earle Subject: Fixed! (was: Help - Lost kernel!) Cc: dozprompt@onsea.com, ru@ucb.crimea.ua, bright@wintelcom.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <38EBFE88.2DEF4388@sterling.com> References: <4.3.2.20000405225847.00aedc80@shadow> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Thank you for the advice. I downloaded the new bootdisks and fixit disk, and was able to recover the system using this method. One more for the memory banks. One thing that got me for a short while, was that the disk systems need to be fscked prior to mounting, or else they will fail to mount. Cheers! Jon At 11:03 PM 04/05/00, you wrote: >You should be able to boot a CD or fixit. Mount the >"real" root fs as /mnt and the "real" /usr as /mnt/usr. >Then copy /mnt/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNELNAME/kernel to /mnt. >I imagine you could boot any version of FreeBSD that >can understand your disk controller and fs type. --- Jon Earle "You can never burn out as long as you're doing what you enjoy. When it stops being fun, then you burn out. And I'm still having fun." "...plot proceeds from character...it's from defining who the character is, what he wants, how far he's willing to go to get it, and how far someone else will go to stop him. From that comes all the rest." -- J. Michael Straczynski, creator Babylon 5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message