From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 1 23: 3:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from proxy2.ba.best.com (proxy2.ba.best.com [206.184.139.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CF1E37B71E for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 23:03:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin@kevster.com) Received: from kevster.com (sdn-ar-002casfraP081.dialsprint.net [168.191.205.169]) by proxy2.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.out) with ESMTP id XAA03079 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 23:02:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3AC8EA33.139F927C@kevster.com> Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 14:08:03 -0700 From: Kevin Lister X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 4.2-stable installs, but does not boot Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi gang, I've been considering starting a small ISP. I planned to use FreeBSD for the servers, since I can't afford Sun Enterprise servers. :o) I would like to play around with the OS a bit, but I can't get it to boot. It appears to install fine, but after exiting the config tool at the end of the install, it reboots and then fails with: loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /kernel text=0x26e45f - elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed Unable to load kernel: Aborted! Anyone else seeing this problem. Please let me know how you fixed it, if so. I suppose I am possibly misconfiguring something during the install process, but the install does appear to occur, the system just doesn't boot. Why do ISP's use FreeBSD over, say, RedHat Linux? Is FreeBSD widely used in the ISP space? thanks, kev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message