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Subject: Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD 8.0-p3
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On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> wrote:
> GNUbie wrote:
>
>> Moving forward, what are your recommendations in order for me to be
>> able to boot from my system?
>
> Boot from a "live" CD of some recent/reasonable vintage, mount the
> filesystems and try to reinstall the old kernel installation? probably
> as simple as a
>
> 1. "move installed kernel directory to another name"
> 2. "move kernel.old directory to kernel"
>
> Bear in mind, I've not done this kind of fiddling for a while, so
> I might have the precise details wrong.

1. Go into rescue shell.
2. Enter in: cd /mnt/boot; mv kernel kernel.old
3. Install kernel distribution from sysinstall

:).
-Garrett