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Subject: Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD 8.0-p3
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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.

- Mark