From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 23:43:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA15784 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:43:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA15763 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:43:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA28683; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:43:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:43:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: David Martinsen cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot.config and boot.help In-Reply-To: <000901bd649b$dd8dad00$08438cd1@dave> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, David Martinsen wrote: > I ran the installation from a dos partition on a 2nd HDD which I later > removed from the system. > > The installation copied all of the files and I did not see any error > messages, however, after exiting the setup and rebooting I get the error > message 'can't find file boot.config' and 'can't find file boot.help', > and after that I get the 'boot:' prompt and the only message that I can > get with that is 'can't find kernel'. Hm, this would imply that the installation failed or went to a different destination than what you were expecting. Try running `?' from the Boot: prompt and see what you get; you should get a listing of files in the root directory, and one of them may be called kernel.GENERIC. > The current boot default is 0:wd(0,a)kernel and i have tried every > combination that i know of thinking that the kernel maybe on a different > partition. What's your disk layout now? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message