One quick point - if you still have a viable 'netbsd.old'
	kernel in the root directory you can boot from it by pressing
	SPACE during the boot blocks countdown, then type
	'boot netbsd.old'.

	The problem you are having is that your normal root filesystem is
	not mounted when you type 'mv /netbsd.old /netbsd' - at that point
	the root filesystem is the in kernel ramdisk.

	You should not use /tmp as a mountpoint - if you need a spare
	mountpoint then 'mkdir /mnt2' or similar and use that.

	It sounds like you root filesystem might be very unhappy - can you
	try: (replace wd0a as necessary)
		fsck /dev/wd0a
		mount /dev/wd0a /mnt
		cd /mnt
		mv netbsd.old netbsd
		reboot
	
	
		David/absolute

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On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Liddy Shriver wrote:

> Help!
> 
> I have been instrumenting the SCSI device drivers so that I
> can see how long various operations take.  I must have edited
> the wrong thing, because after my last make of the kernel, my
> machine won't boot.  It prints out the messages that go to the 
> dmesg file, but halts at the one for the scsi disks.  I turned 
> off my disks, but that doesn't seem to help.  So, I make a 
> boot disk (copying the book.fs from the installtion), and have
> booted the system.
> 
> I have two IDE disks: one with /usr/src and the other with 
> everything else, and Windows NT.  I can mount the disk with 
> /usr/src, but when I cd to the directory were I would build 
> the kernal and type "mv /netbsd.old /netbsd" I get no such file
> found.  How do I move the old kernel back?
> 
> Also, I can mount the disk with everything else (and Windows NT),
> but when I cd to the directory that I used as a mount point,
> I get "cann't cd".  I didn't know what to use as a mount point,
> so I picked tmp.  When I do an "ls -l", there's something there,
> but the entry looks odd... it starts with a "p" instead of a "d",
> etc.
> 
> Liddy
>