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From: Alexander Indenbaum <baum@actcom.co.il>
Subject: Help : My kernel spawns /stand/sysinstall
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Hello!
I have tried to work with my 1.6G DOS partition ( which is
my buffer between Linux and FreBSD ) and when I was doing
cp /dos/FreeBSD/src/* . my system paniced and rebooted.
When it came back up istead of starting normally it spawned 
/stand/sysinstall.
I booted with boot.flp and fixit.flp and ran fsck on my bsd 
partition. fsck reported that it is damaged badly.
Then I mounted my bsd partition manually and checked it out 
It looks OK exept full lost+found.
rc scripts look OK.
So I have to Q:
1. Why FreeBSD is not able work with large DOS/any (?) partition ?
2. How do I restore my FreeBSD ( without reinstalling ) how do I prevent 
   it spawn /stand/sysinstall
3. What the hell happend?

Help will be greatly appritiated.

  Alexander Indenbaum
  baum@actcom.co.il