From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 20 17:33:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dfw-smtpout1.email.verio.net (dfw-smtpout1.email.verio.net [129.250.36.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D415537B407 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:33:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jaymax@sac.verio.net) Received: from [129.250.38.61] (helo=dfw-mmp1.email.verio.net) by dfw-smtpout1.email.verio.net with esmtp id 15YzTt-0007EK-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:33:21 +0000 Received: from [152.79.91.161] (helo=sac.verio.net) by dfw-mmp1.email.verio.net with asmtp (011805090) id 15YzTt-0000tq-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:33:21 +0000 Message-ID: <3B81ABF5.166865E6@sac.verio.net> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:31:49 -0700 From: Joseph Maxwell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Free BSD_Users Subject: Installation problem - v 4.2 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------2097619B200016BAB2920D82" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------2097619B200016BAB2920D82 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I am experiencing a "can't load kernel" condition after a clean installation. Just put together this box ===> Award Bios v6.00PG 1984-99 (AI6IS019) AMD 751 Main Processor: AMD Athlon 900mHz Memory: 512 Mb Diskette Drive A: 1.44 Mb 3.5 in Diskette Drive B: 1.2 Mb 5.25 in Pri Master Disk: LBA, UDMA 66, 40 Gb Pri Slave Disk: Samsung VG33402A 3.4 Gb Sec Master Disk: CD-ROM4, Mode3. Matshita CR-572 1.2g Sec Slave Disk: None Device Class IRQ's IDE Controller 14 Serial Bus Controller 11 Multimedia Device 10 Simple COMM Controller 5 Display Controller NA Network Controller 11 ACPI Controller 9 {just realized possible IRQ conflict - serial bus & network controllers sharing the same IRQ} ________________________________________ Did initial boot w/ MSDOS 6.2 disk, apparently mfsroot.flp, and boot.flp were not needed on the floppies, then install seemed to run from CDROM. Created partition slices, boot manager etc. seemed fine. Sysinstall, had 7 potential network related conflicts, reduced to none after leaving only the one onboard driver active. On reboot the following occurred ===> after verification of DMI pool F1 FreeBSD F2 DOS F3 Linux F5 Drive 1 Default: F1 BTX loader 1.00 BTX Version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS Drive A: is disk 0 BIOS Drive B: is disk 1 BIOS Drive C: is disk 2 {then some memory info here} FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 {------------} loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf Unable to load kernel Aborted! can't load 'kernel' Can't load 'kernel-old' Suggestions & recommendations desired. Thanks in advance -- Joe -- --------------2097619B200016BAB2920D82 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello,
I am experiencing a "can't load kernel" condition after a clean installation.

Just put together this box ===>

Award Bios v6.00PG 1984-99 (AI6IS019) AMD 751
Main Processor: AMD Athlon 900mHz
Memory: 512 Mb
Diskette Drive A: 1.44 Mb     3.5 in
Diskette Drive B: 1.2 Mb      5.25 in
Pri Master Disk: LBA, UDMA 66, 40 Gb
Pri Slave Disk: Samsung VG33402A 3.4 Gb
Sec Master Disk: CD-ROM4, Mode3. Matshita CR-572 1.2g
Sec Slave Disk: None

Device Class                 IRQ's
IDE Controller                14
Serial Bus Controller         11
Multimedia Device             10
Simple COMM Controller         5
Display Controller            NA
Network Controller            11
ACPI Controller                9

{just realized possible IRQ conflict - serial bus & network controllers sharing the same IRQ}
 ________________________________________

Did initial boot w/ MSDOS 6.2 disk, apparently mfsroot.flp, and boot.flp were not needed on the floppies, then install seemed to run from CDROM.
Created partition slices, boot manager etc. seemed fine. Sysinstall, had 7 potential network related conflicts, reduced to none after leaving only the one onboard driver active. On reboot the following occurred ===>

after verification of DMI pool

F1            FreeBSD
F2            DOS
F3            Linux
F5            Drive 1
Default:    F1

BTX loader 1.00 BTX Version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS Drive A: is disk 0
BIOS Drive B: is disk 1
BIOS Drive C: is disk 2
{then some memory info here}
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
  {------------}
loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
Unable to load kernel
Aborted!
can't load 'kernel'
Can't load 'kernel-old'

Suggestions & recommendations desired.
Thanks in advance

--  Joe  --
 
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