From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 19 13:43:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.sasknow.net (stimpy.sasknow.net [207.195.92.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB8037B42C for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:43:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by home.sasknow.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3JEhRa06987; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:43:28 GMT (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) X-Authentication-Warning: home.sasknow.net: ryan owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:43:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Ryan Thompson X-X-Sender: To: Eric Smith Cc: Subject: Re: Install problem In-Reply-To: <01041915222000.02463@david> Message-ID: <20010419143745.V6835-100000@home.sasknow.net> Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eric Smith wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > When I try and boot from the boot floppy, I get a strange error about > not being able to find /kernel, and some other stuff. The machine is > an IBM Server 95, so it's an MCA box. I'd think it might have > something to do with the proprietary drive controller/floppy drive, > because I can run it on other computers just fine. Have you run into > this before? Well, yes... It doesn't sound like your floppy drive or controller is at fault, because the "Can't find /kernel" message indicates that some kind of valid FreeBSD MBR was found and loaded on the floppy. (1) Perhaps you are trying to boot the MFS root floppy instead of the kernel floppy? That is the most likely cause. Boot the kern.flp first, then the kernel will load and you will be prompted for MFS root. If that isn't it, maybe the actual floppies are corrupt/not entirely written. Check the MD5s and dump the images again to a new pair of floppies. (1) Though, I'm not familiar with that hardware. Maybe you've got a funny "partially working" drive that is giving you this error.. but in that case it probably wouldn't be consistent. - Ryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message