Baby, who stole your soul?

After long holiday; i'm back at the office. One of the guy from ITHelpdesk asked me; why his newly installed freebsd 6.1 failed to start. So i tried to boot into his freebsd, but found that there was no kernel to boot to. What i did was; boot using freebsd 6.1 installer and using sysintall; i chose fixit option -> Live cd.

then i need to mount the harddisk.

#mkdir /tmp/bsd
#mount /dev/ad4s1 /tmp/bsd

From there i changed directory to /boot. There was no kernel folder in boot directory. Oh baby, who stole your soul(kernel)?

Then i decided to copy kernel folder in the installer cd ( Before that i already copy the kernel folder into thumb drive).

#mkdir /tmp/usb
#/tmp/bsd/sbin/mount_msdos /dev/da0s1 /tmp/usb
#cp -Rf /tmp/usb/kernel /tmp/bsd/boot

That's it. I restored back your soul ; but who gonna gimme back my soul, baby?


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