From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 1 9:26:47 2002 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 8920D37B401 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 09:26:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EFA643E9C for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 09:26:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walterk1@earthlink.net) Received: from user-0cal9lv.cable.mindspring.com ([24.170.166.191] helo=earthlink.net) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18IXrc-0001Uj-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 01 Dec 2002 09:26:40 -0800 Message-ID: <3DEA464F.7050701@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 12:26:39 -0500 From: Walter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Question Subject: can't load kernel on 386 system Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 I've installed a minimal+docs generic system on 500-somethingMB HD, and I'm trying to run it on a 386, 8Mb RAM computer. It fails at elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed can't load module '/kernel': input/output error Because of the small HD, and the fact that the /var and the /tmp partitions never use over a few hundred blocks on my Pentium computer, I made them 32Mb each for the 386, but accepted the defaults for the "/" and the Swap partitions; the /usr partition got the remainder of the HD. Am I seeing a configuration error, a MB error, other? Any thoughts? Thanks. Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message