hi patrick,

someone else can give a better answer for sure but let me give give a try
here. (sorry if you know this already or if i have misunderstood your
question).

would reverting to an older fossil snapshot work for you?

if so, you could do this (i have just outlined):

- boot via cdrom
- find fossil's last score (using fossil/last command)
- format fossil partition with that score (flfmt command)

now, remove cdrom and boot from hard disk.

hope this helps.

thanks
dharani

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Patrick Kristiansen <
patrick.kasserer@gmail.com> wrote:

> I did a pull yesterday and it has removed all my /386/ and it is now unable
> to boot.
>
> boot: /386/init: '/386/init' does not exist
> panic: boot process died: unknown
> panic: boot process died: unknown
> dumpstack disabled
> cpu0: exiting
>
>
> Hints on how to restore are welcome....
>
> -Patrick
>
> 2009/1/23 <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
>
>  > srv: dial tcp!sources.cs.bell-labs.com!9fs: connection refused
>> > bind: /n/sources/plan9: '/n/sources/plan9' does not exist
>> > servermount: bind 545911: bind
>>
>> Hm, about as bad as when a couple of days ago I left replica/pull
>> running overnight and came back next morning to find that even /bin/ls
>> had disappeared.
>>
>> Maybe sources _is_ sick.
>>
>> ++L
>>
>> PS: recovering from fossil/venti was easy, although I had to hunt down
>> the previous day's score (thank you Russ for "vacchain", warts and
>> all), but my attempts at fixing the problem by less disruptive means
>> were quite an experience.
>>
>>
>>
>