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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 10:11:36 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: ghost@comnet.ca
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Subject: Re: HELP!
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On Mon, Sep 01, 1997 at 08:09:13AM -0400, ghost wrote:
> I installed freeBSD 2.2.2 on my MSDos partition of my 486 sx 33, with a GIG
> Hdd
> space and 8 megs of memory, and now all i get is that damn
> Boot:
> promt and "cannot find kernel" !!!!
> The installation went sour... i don't know what happend but i though after
> when it told me that things went wrong it would go back to the original
> settings. my system won't boot anymore... 

Well, why don't you try again?

> i need to low level the HDD 

Why do you need to do that?  If you do, you'll lose everything.

> and could if i could boot my DOS disks!

You mean you can't boot from floppy either?

> PLEASE HELP!!! PLEASE!!! or tell me where i can get help... i NEED HELP
> SOON!!

You can get help here.  But first you need to calm down and figure out
what has happened.  Then tell us.

Greg