Re: How to recover kernel?

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd@2003.snew.com>]

Quoting Tom Mack (bsd-misc@tom-mack.com):
> I have a little problem. The other day I made a little typo and 
> effectively did: sudo rm /*
don't do that.

> Of course, when I rebooted the kernel could not be found. Currently, I 
> have the system running, but not as I want it. I used the boot floppy 
> to ftp a i386 bsd file to the computer. Then I put a boot.conf file in 
> the etc directory of the floppy with: boot wd0a:/bsd

Nice recovery.  Now it the time when you pull out the backups, right?

> Now the system will boot when the floppy is inserted, but not with out. 
> I assume there is some other file that I deleted from the root that I 
> need, any ideas? Are there any other important files that I am now 
> missing (from the root)?

boot, bsd , did you kill directories?

worse case, find a big partition (400MB or so free), make
a dir and untar all the 3.3 distributions into it and look.