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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!167.142.225.5!news.netins.net!not-for-mail From: gataje@usa.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: bad kernel Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 19:32:32 -0500 Organization: netINS, Inc. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <MPG.e35d297b78e5288989681@news.netins.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: desm-01-35.dialup.netins.net X-Newsreader: Anawave Gravity v1.10 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44482 Hello. My problem is large. First of all, I had a conflict between my PS2 mouse driver and my SysCons Console driver in kernel, and I very stupidly chose do disable the console driver. Now it turns out that they probably could have both worked together, but oh well. Also, I then found out that I had very stupidly deleted kernel.GENERIC. Either the comp. is freezing or it is not outputing to the screen after it starts to load the kernel. I've tried running it "blind" to see if the HD would click to indicate that it simply weren't outputing to the screen rather than it were freezing, but that wasn't the case. I figured if I could load the fixit floppy and mount the HD, I could copy the kernel from the boot floppy to the HD, and not have to re-install, but for some reason I can't mount the HD. If I understand this correctly, however, the HD controller is //dev/wdc0, the HD is //dev/wd0, the DOS partition is //dev/wd0s1, and the FreeBSD partition is //dev/wd0s2, with wd0s2a, wd0s2b, wd0s2c, and wd0s2d being sub-partitions of the /usr, /var, swap, and root file systems. Unfortunately, all that is in the Fixit Floppy's //dev/ directory is wd0s2, which is says is unmountable. Now I'm really stuck, and I need help. Oh, also, I don't want to just re-install because I don't have the CD, so re-installing would take forever.