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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 14:30:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
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To: Tom Samplonius <tom@misery.sdf.com>
Cc: Michael Vernick <vernick@CS.SunySB.EDU>,
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Subject: Re: I hosed my system with a -current kernel
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On Tue, 25 Jul 1995, Tom Samplonius wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 25 Jul 1995, Michael Vernick wrote:
> 
> > Sorry that I'm not responding to your question, but did you get any
> > answers?  I've also seemed to have hosed my kernel and need a way to
> > copy a kernel from floppy back to the hard disk so I can reboot.
> 
>   Is "kernel.GENERIC" hosed too?  If not, just type its name at the boot 
> prompt to boot it instead.

I had a problem with hosing my kernel.GENERIC because after the install 
of 2.0.5-R kernel and kernel.GENERIC were hard linked together...  not 
relizing this... I had recompiled my kernel and did a cp kernel 
/kernel...  and as you can imagine I lost kernel.GENERIC...

John-Mark

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