Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 00:41:13 -0800 From: iguana@inetarena.com (Iguanasoft) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Panic on Boot Message-ID: <199901240841.AAA17999@inetarena.com>
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Hello All, Hopefully someone can help on this one, I've search a bit but cannot seem to find a solution. Running FREEBSD 2.2.5 on a Pentium200, 65M Ram, Western Digital Hard Drive (wd0), IDE CD-ROM... System has been up for a year, (besides a manual reboot here and there) without a hitch until yesterday. It was caught in a continuous re-boot loop with the key messages being: Cant find file boot.conf Cant find file boot.help <Various Hardware probes...then ending in> init : not found panic : no init Rebooting in 15 seconds <then reboot> My first thought was of the data that resides on the disk (the kicker being that I had a tape drive in my hand that I was about ready to install, so this wouldnt have been that big of a deal) I began to try different ways to get back to a workable shell to see what the damage toll was... I have the Generic boot floppy, the stock fixit floppy as well as the install CD, and Live file system CD...I tried to call up the kernel by name from the (boot:) prompt but came up with a 'file not found', (probably an error on my end from not knowing the correct usage) I also booted into the CD-ROM menu and arrived in the emergency holographic shell but was unable to mount the hard disk...I had to pack it up for time constraints but will return tommarow... Can anyone tell me what procedure I can use that would be the wisest at this point to get back to a bootable GENERIC kernel, or point out something obvious I'm overlooking...any help would be GREATLY appreciated... If I do arrive in the Holographic shell what would be the correct command to mount the hard disk? Any help strongly appriciated :) -Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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