From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 12 20:22:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 8265C16A41F for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:22:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from millueradfa@yahoo.com) Received: from web54501.mail.yahoo.com (web54501.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.49.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D10A143D49 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:22:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from millueradfa@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 85087 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Aug 2005 20:22:26 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=xbHKT33st/A/qNhqgm+i5lu/zf7JF/xplAGkuAlvh31P9QSPiDkiuzXmJNsTi2X6PYfzgBb3XP2Y7QjS11CG0r1u/I0kZLCTeLrp/neZC2uuMewE0DIDmMb70WxynKKvzAUiMHPVe3tgQVLrABmN3r4lOA9ay6gNQzga0KIc8Q4= ; Message-ID: <20050812202226.85085.qmail@web54501.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [136.145.54.123] by web54501.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:22:25 PDT Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:22:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Milscvaer To: Greg Barniskis , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <42FCC7F2.7030404@scls.lib.wi.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: Failed installation of FreeBSD 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:22:27 -0000 > 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