Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:22:10 +0100 From: Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> To: GNUbie <gnubie@gmail.com> Cc: maurovale@gmail.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd@jdc.parodius.com Subject: Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD 8.0-p3 Message-ID: <4C2CC0B2.4030100@exonetric.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimOaewFImAtg1TfGKuqtw0k6RK_bDTtx59et6Qe@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTillIqfkqfR_onhuliReFPLQ9kIq45VCbjz65mxI@mail.gmail.com> <4C280435.4060603@halplant.com> <AANLkTikwdCrsU2VH0BRZWPiFb4qIEIa-xn5z4-qnrDIE@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTik311un3tpWYNLIFMg9g8n5M0SkWswpTxf3Sjgu@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTilZW4DVFChouPCpx0S661zzq3EtonpJIU341gBD@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTim8R-lZxCKqgXEIGqSG0FWewr2sxVQxZ1v1FwM5@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikPpVhtRgoR-Hjf84hsmphySY4ta-es30nBv-Mo@mail.gmail.com> <20100701160622.GA98823@icarus.home.lan> <AANLkTimOaewFImAtg1TfGKuqtw0k6RK_bDTtx59et6Qe@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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