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From: Bootsrapa Limanond <b0l6604@unix.tamu.edu>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: Suttipan Limanond <limanond@enws626.eas.asu.edu>,
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Subject: Re: Empty Partition, Can't find kernel Error
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Hi:

Thanks very much for responding.

Is there anyway to reinstall FreeBSD while saving a partition
(i.e., /usr/home) on the second hard drive? Or I have to clean
up everything on both the first and second hard disk.

Suttipan.


On Wed, 12 May 1999, Doug White wrote:

> On Mon, 10 May 1999, Suttipan Limanond wrote:
> 
> > I think I shoot myself in the foot big time here.
> > 
> > I run both Win95 and 2.2.5 side-by-side. The Win95 and 2.2.5 bootable
> > are on the first hard disk, while some other 2.2.5 partitions are on the
> > second harddisk. Today after reinstalling
> > Win95, the boot manager disappeared and I can only booted Win95.
> > I searched the archive and read a suggestion that I run bootinst.exe
> > from the CDROM. The problem is that I ran bootinst.exe after I have
> > `messed' around with `fip' and `sysinstall' (partition config) for a
> > while :(.
> [..]
> >     empty partition
> >     can't find kernel"
> > 
> > I would appreciate if anyone can give me some advice on
> > how to fix the problem.
> 
> Install failed.  Delete the FreeBSD slice and start over.
> 
> Doug White                               
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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> 



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