Subject: Re: kern/21060: ufs looks like it's mighty hosed
To: Geoff Wing <mason@primenet.com.au>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/08/2003 12:37:17 
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 01:39:00AM +0000, Geoff Wing wrote:
  | I had this happen to me too.  Killed half my /lib files (including libc),
  | /sbin/init, etc. and AFAIK there was no way for me to specify a different
  | init (like /rescue/init) through the bootstrap (on i386).

Did you try "boot -a" ?

(I implemented & tested the /rescue, /lib, dynamic /sbin work on i386,
and recovered from a hosed /sbin/init this way)

Luke.