From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 19 5:50:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2580F37B518 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 05:50:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from s1@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA20212; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 08:57:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from s1@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <38FDABCD.DBB37E00@wmptl.com> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 08:51:25 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican Reply-To: s1@wmptl.com Organization: Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MrK1nt@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation (newbie) References: <20000419121842.F1F5737BC5B@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG try this command at the boot: prompt, (it will list of the file(s) if any in your root partition). boot: wd(0,a)? see if you see a 'kernel', or 'kernel.GENERIC', It sounds to me as if you selected 'skip kernel configuration' before you installed. You should be able to boot kernel.GENERIC, and make yourself a new kernel. Try this command if kernel.GENERIC shows up: boot: wd(0,a)kernel.GENERIC MrK1nt@aol.com wrote: > I recently installed FreeBSD 4.0 on my system at home which is also running win95. I think I went through the whole installation process correctly using the Complete FreeBSD book and also the online handbook. My problem is when I get the option of booting FreeBSD or DOS and I pick BSD this is what I get: > > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:wd(0,a)/kernel > boot: > But then I get a next message saying: no kernel and it gives me the same screen again. Where did I go wrong? What did I leave out? Help me!!! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message