The only thing that I can think of is try mounting the slice then cd to the /boot/kernel dir and gzip -9 kernel.gz
Then reboot and see if it finds the kernel. We are still not sure why this happens but it doesn't seem to happen when you install from a 0.80+ iso and then upgrade. Scott On 9/15/05, Xtian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Howdy pfSensers, > > I've been running 0.70.8 just fine on a normal PC with 3Com NICs for months > now. I did the 0.80.4 > Upgrade and rebooted the box and I get: > > (bootloader loads fine, fives me the option of "F1 FreeBSD" and then duly > loads): > > Can't work out which disk we are booting from. > Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: > > can't load 'kernel' > > lsdev: > disk devices: > disk0: BIOS drive A: > disk1: BIOS drive C: > > Hmm... booting from the Live CD (0.70.8) I am able to mount /dev/ad0s1a and > everything looks fine in the > filesystem. Kernel is there in /boot/kernel/kernel.gz and all that. > > So I don't know what happened. > > I am a Linux guy, so I don't enough to figure out what FreeBSD decided to > magically not find my drive > anymore. The Hardware must be okay, or else I wouldn't have been able to > mount it from the Live CD. > > Any ideas? > > Many thanks, > > Christian > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
