From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 19 11:39:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09662 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 11:39:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from darwin.snowmoon.com (ts2p55.wizvax.net [204.97.162.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09648 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 11:39:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jaime@snowmoon.com) Received: from localhost (jaime@localhost) by darwin.snowmoon.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA09882; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:46:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jaime@darwin.snowmoon.com) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:46:09 -0500 (EST) From: Jaime Reply-To: jaime@snowmoon.com To: Charles Williams cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reluctant to re-install In-Reply-To: <000b01be2b80$6688c440$76301e26@williams> 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 On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Charles Williams wrote: > Dear FreeBSD, > I tried all of your advice except re-stalling the system. It > didn't work. I am reluctant to re-install the system because I had to > download it over the internet. We have a slow 14.4 modem, so it took > me over 18 hours just to download it. Please, is there any > alternatives? I'm relitively new to FreeBSD, but I would love to try > it out and and weary of another huge download. I installed FreeBSD > 3.0 on my actual second hard drive, the primary slave drive to be > exact. The FreeBSD partition is the third partition. I need all the > help I can get. > > -cr1148 > e-mail at cr1148@earthlink.net > > Oh! Then try "0:wd(1,a)kernel" at the "boot:" prompt. Without the ""s, though. As to why its not working, I don't know. But you might want to try (assuming that you downloaded the kernel's sources (look in /usr/src/sys to verify)) making a new kernel. Make sure that it has: config kernel root on wd0 ...changed to: config kernel root on wd1 Also, if you can get to a shell prompt, look at your /etc/fstab file and the results of a "ls /dev/wd*". Make sure that all the "/dev/wd___" listings in the file actually exist in the /dev directory. If they don't, you can "cd /dev" and then "./MAKEDEV wd1s1a". (Replace wd1s1a with whatever device you need to make.) Good luck, Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message