Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:35:18 EDT From: MicroDan5@aol.com To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Help Booting machine Message-ID: <41.9adaa95.27fa82d6@aol.com>
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Hello All I recently have acquired a freeBSD machine. The file BSD* was moved from one of the directories and placed in a backup directory. Why? Who knows, but it is now my problem. Now the machine will not boot. When it boots up I recieve a boot prompt, like it is tring to boot search for a file to boot from. I have a boot floppy for BSD, but when I use it to boot, I can not see my hard drive. Further more the image does not have an fstab file or access to the Floppy drive. Does anyone know of a way that I can boot this machine with some utility and get it to see the hard drives. I just want to copy the file back and go on with my life. Or else can I create this fstab file manually. If so what utility can I use to create it. This image that I have does not have Vi or pico. This is a real tuff one. I am hoping there is another way to make a boot floppy so I can boot this machine up and then recopy the file back. I know exactly where it is. I also have another FreeBsd machine that is identical. If I could gain access to the floppy drive may I could copy this file to the ramdrive. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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