Re: Repairing "kernel not found"

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?

Fred.

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

>On 2005-09-06 19:34, "Frederick N. Brier"
<fbriermultideck.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>More info.  If I "ls" either before or
after setting the bootpath or
>>module_path environment variables, the response is:
"open '/' failed:
>>no such file or directory".  The "load
kernel" command returns: "can't
>>file 'kernel'".  Do I need to load a module so
that the 3Ware drive
>>"twe" is loaded?  The loaddev and currdev
variables are both set to
>>"disk1s1a:" Thank you again.
>>    
>>
>
>Hmmm, isn't it a job of the system BIOS to present a
"disk" from the twe
>controller?  Not sure why this would fail; I haven't
used twe so far.
>
>
>
>  
>


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On 2005-09-07 09:51, "Frederick N. Brier"
<fbriermultideck.com> 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?

Not sure.  It seems odd that your boot loader can't see the
partition.

Have you checked that the BIOS slice table and your
partitions are ok?

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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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