From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 16 23:35:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9046016A4CE for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:35:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out014.verizon.net (out014pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2539D43D1F for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:35:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([68.160.246.51]) by out014.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040916233531.LLUU24490.out014.verizon.net@[192.168.1.3]>; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:35:31 -0500 Message-ID: <414A233E.9040107@mac.com> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:35:26 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Beachell References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out014.verizon.net from [68.160.246.51] at Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:35:31 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble installing 4.10 on laptop - "cannot find kernel" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:35:32 -0000 Adam Beachell wrote: > I am atempting to install 4.10 on my laptop. After booting from the > install CD I get a message stating "cannot find kernel". I get this > error whether I use the miniinstall or the full 2 disc CD install. > Browsing the CDs I can see that the kernel does exist on the disk. > > I have read many of the installation documents however am at a > dead-end. Has anyone seen this before? And what might be the problem? You didn't mention what type of laptop you have, which is fairly crucial information-- others with similar hardware might say something useful. You ought to carefully review your BIOS settings and ATA config (ie, try using PIO mode rather than UMDA); some laptops don't follow the specs very closely, and FreeBSD can be picky if ATA devices aren't set up properly. -- -Chuck