Repairing "kernel not found"
Norberto Meijome
freebsd at meijome.net
Thu Sep 8 18:50:42 PDT 2005
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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