From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 11 9:30:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED93614E30 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 09:30:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA67730; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:34:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199912111734.MAA67730@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: ref: Installing on a 486dx4 In-Reply-To: <3851F66E.31E4B9A0@geocities.com> from greg simonoff at "Dec 10, 1999 10:59:58 pm" To: gsimonoff@geocities.com Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:34:38 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG greg simonoff wrote, > Hi, > I'm trying to load FreeBSD3.2 > > Here's what happens. I make the Kernel and > the boot floppy. I cold start to the Kernel > floppy and after some probing it > I am eventually told to insert the boot floppy. The > system then does a warm boot, and > as soon as the boot floppy starts it promptly > imforms me that there is no kernal loaded. So > somehow between the time the first floppy is > run and the second floppy is loaded the kernel > has disappeared? But, of course if the kernel was > loaded in memory by the kernel disk and the machine > reboots then how can the second disk find the kernel? > What is supposed to be happening? The machine should not be _rebooting_ after the kern.flp. Is that really what you mean? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message