Unable to boot FreeBSD 8.0-p3

[Garrett Cooper]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Mark Blackman <mark at 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.

1.a. mount filesystem ;P.

> 2. Enter in: cd /mnt/boot; mv kernel kernel.old
> 3. Install kernel distribution from sysinstall

-Garrett