Hi,

my isp just reinstalled my dedicaced server, however, for some reason, I don't know what they did but all the kernel stats are unavaillable, ie I can't use top (nlist failed) and vmstat...

I was told that my kernel wasn't booting with /boot/loader or something similar, any of you know how I could fix this issue?

Thanks

This usually occurs if

a] you compile and make the kernel but dont do an installworld
see /usr/src/UPDATING
(OR)
b] as you say, you are not booting form /boot/loader

Recompile the kernel and make installworld .. follow the instructions for kernel recompile in the FreeBSD handbook

Originally posted by zas

my isp just reinstalled my dedicaced server, however, for some reason, I don't know what they did but all the kernel stats are unavaillable, ie I can't use top (nlist failed) and vmstat...

I was told that my kernel wasn't booting with /boot/loader or something similar, any of you know how I could fix this issue?



Read "man 8 boot" for the details. This can be a wrong setting in /boot, or a wrong setting for your drive in the BIOS.

If the drive is set to User Defined in the BIOS, try Auto instead. That's fixed the problem in two cases I know of.

Kevin

Darn, thx for info...

I though there was a simplest solution since this is a dedicaced box... Grr that's bad, I don't have console access heh :/