From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 11:51:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B5EA14DC1 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 11:51:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05628; Mon, 17 May 1999 11:50:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:50:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Bootsrapa Limanond Cc: Suttipan Limanond , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Empty Partition, Can't find kernel Error In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 May 1999, Bootsrapa Limanond wrote: > 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. You can try overlaying it. I wasn't aware that this was an upgrade. > 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 > > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message