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Cc: Chris Chambers <cchamb0@interchange.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: Broken Partition
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On Sunday 03 May 2009 09:26:42 pm Chris Chambers wrote:
> Using partition magic, I freed some space from my msdos partition. Then
> using sysinstall's fdisk and label, I attempted to add the space to my
> freebsd partition. I broke the installation. The boot loader can not
> find /boot/kernal. I tried mounting the partition under FixIt, but
> mount says "broken argument".

When you say "add the space to my freebsd partition" what exactly did you 
do?

What device nodes are listed for your disk from the fixit environment?

JN