From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 17 18:47:55 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 234A9106566C for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:47:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 074C78FC08 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:47:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay11.apple.com (relay11.apple.com [17.128.113.48]) by mail-out3.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C259552FD46A; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:47:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay11.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay11.apple.com (Symantec Brightmail Gateway) with ESMTP id A954C28084; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:47:54 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 11807130-a9893bb000000fcd-29-499b065aea71 Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (cswiger1.apple.com [17.227.140.124]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay11.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 8637F2807D; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:47:54 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: From: Chuck Swiger To: "Dixit, Viraj" In-Reply-To: <9A8CAB63B4C2014B883AF16FDFB362FBBB830F@xpo.staff.copa> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:47:54 -0800 References: <9A8CAB63B4C2014B883AF16FDFB362FBBB830F@xpo.staff.copa> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd general questions Subject: Re: Can't find the Kernel 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: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:47:55 -0000 Hi-- On Feb 17, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Dixit, Viraj wrote: > Got you name from the mailing list, looks like you have good knowledge > of BSD, can you tell me how to fix my kernel issue. I had built Free > BSD > 7.0 system that worked fine for four days then I had to move my system > to another place and the system halts at "can't find kernel" > message. Do > I have to rebuild the whole system, I have checked the loader.conf > file, > all looks fine. Thanks, Shaan I'm happy to help out people on the mailing lists, at least when I have time, but I'm less happy with the notion of people deciding ab initio to mail me random tech support questions. The normal way to resolve this would be to check whether the disk(s) have been moved, whether some other system was installed which changed the active partition, or something changed in the BIOS which would change the order of device enumeration and cause loader to not find the boot volume. It's generally pretty easy to fix from the loader prompt by doing an "ls" or "lsdev" (I forget exactly), or by running the sysinstall util from a boot CD and re-writing the boot loader, assuming that it can see the existing FreeBSD partitions on the disk. It might be worth running fsck from a boot CD/rescue CD on the filesystems on the hard drive, and then mounting them on /mnt one by one and making sure they are sane.... Regards, -- -Chuck