From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 29 10:44:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E7FB37B9BD for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:44:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA26815; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:44:49 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA00450; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:44:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:44:18 -0500 (EST) To: "Kelly" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install Problem In-Reply-To: <8btges$4em0@eGroups.com> References: <8btges$4em0@eGroups.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14562.19812.773470.275558@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kelly writes: > > I know that this is not the problem, because I have the same problem > when I install from a ftp download. And you're certain you've removed the CDROM & floppies? > any more Ideas. Yes, boot verbosely (boot -fl v from SRM, or boot -v from the boot loader), then scroll up & see what start_init() is saying about the init path. You might see something like: init: not found in path /sbin/init Also, report what it says about where it is mounting root from. It will be something like: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da1a Cheers, Drew PS: In syscons, you can scroll up by toggling scroll lock & using pgup/pgdown. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message