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Date:      Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:50:34 +1000
From:      Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Repairing "kernel not found"
Message-ID:  <4320EA6A.7010001@meijome.net>
In-Reply-To: <431EF065.60308@multideck.com>
References:  <431DB202.2070603@multideck.com>	<20050906152850.GA28262@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>	<431E2784.3060801@multideck.com>	<20050907110659.GA7415@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <431EF065.60308@multideck.com>

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Frederick N. Brier wrote:
> What is odd is that the machine booted FreeBSD perfectly at least 5-6 
> times before I ran into the weird "ps" error and then it would not 
> boot.  I still need to figure out what caused the problem in the first 
> place.
> 
> For the moment, is there a way to reinstall just the core 5.4 kernel 
> distribution files, but not anything else?  Is it legitimate to do a 
> recursive copy of all the boot files on the CD, ie: /dist/boot to the 
> twed1s1a slice's /boot directory.  Then I do the boot0cfg and disklabel 
> command and then fixes any boot manager config files.  Would that work?

I would boot something like Freesbie and make sure I can access the 
drives + files before wasting any more time trying to get it to boot. If 
you have a busted drive / controller, you may have trouble booting...




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