From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 4 15:35: 6 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 04B4737B401 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:35:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.mx.voyager.net (mail2.mx.voyager.net [216.93.66.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56ECE43E42 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:35:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from macimusprime@mac.com) Received: from [216.93.101.158] (dhcp-158.rback0.flnt.mi.voyager.net [216.93.101.158]) by mail2.mx.voyager.net (8.11.6/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g94MZ2J74512 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:35:03 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: macimusprime@mail.mac.com Message-Id: Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:34:21 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: mac Subject: Newbie question help w/boot problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 got an old IBM to play with freeBSD I made a Install CD and was installing it the other day and during the install the machine basically crashed for what ever reason I rebooted the machine and the screen says this. Booting [kernel]... can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' Type "?" for a list of commands or "help" for more detailed help. ok _ Thats it I can not get it to boot from the cd any more even though I have changed the BIOS to check the CD first and I also have a Win98 boot disk and that doesn't work either. I remember selecting the boot manager for BSD before it crashed. Is there any thing I can do to reformat the drive and start over? Or get it to boot from the cd or floppy? Thanks, -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message