Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:22:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Milscvaer <millueradfa@yahoo.com> To: Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failed installation of FreeBSD 5.4 Message-ID: <20050812202226.85085.qmail@web54501.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <42FCC7F2.7030404@scls.lib.wi.us>
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> Which boot prompt? The disk selector (F1, F2, ..., > Fn to choose a > disk to boot from) or the new boot menu where you > can select > different ways of booting (safe mode, etc.), or at > the kernel's > "boot:" prompt? Does it beep of its own accord, or > whenever you > strike keys? > It was the disk selector (F1, F2, etc). It beeps every 15 seconds or so and as well when I hit any of the keys. > If it's beeping at the disk selector when you strike > keys, then > somehow your partition scheme is wonky -- possibly > you've got > multiple disks and have installed the boot menu on > each one, which > can get rather messy. Since you are manually > creating a partition > scheme, rather than doing something like "Auto > Defaults", are you > remembering to make your FreeBSD slice bootable > (active)?. Do you > have enough RAM to run 5.4 (24 MB minimum)? > I have 32 MB of RAM. I tried going in and setting the partition to active but this didnt make a difference. I only have one hard disk. I did boot a fixit floppy and mounted and looked at the filesystem, and noticed that the kernel* file under the / directory is still the old kernel from the old installation I had on the system, not the 5.4 kernel. When I try to delete the file it first asks me if I would like to override r-xr-xr-x root/0 schg. I hit y, and it then says operation not permitted. I do not know why it will not let me delete this file. I try doing a chmod a+w kernel on it, but it wont let me do that either. What is going on here? Maybe this could have something to do with why it wont boot. I also tried moving it, and agian, not dice. I suppose that if I can modify it, perhaps the installer cant either. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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