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From: Jeff Erickson <jperickson@gmail.com>
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Subject: RE: Person new to FreeBSD needs help...
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This is a one hard drive system, and it is a single boot system. I
can't say what the exact message is, because I replaced the "broken"
FreeBSD with Debian (which was what was on it before) until I figure
out what is going wrong, but it wasn't far from "unable to load
kernel, trying kernel.old... unable to load kernel.old" and then it
went to the "ok" prompt of what I am assuming to be the bootloader
that FreeBSD put on.

Thanks again,
Jeff Erickson


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From: Saint Aardvark the Carpeted <aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:20:59 -0700
Subject: Re: Person new to FreeBSD needs help...
To: Jeff Erickson <jperickson@gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Jeff Erickson disturbed my sleep to write:
> I am new to FreeBSD and am having a problem. I downloaded the ISOs of
> Disk 1 and 2
> of version 4.10 and go through the installation and everything seems
> to be fine until I reboot. Then it says that it cannot load the kernel
> or kernel.old. What am I doing wrong?

Very strange -- those files should've been copied over as part of the
installation.  Are you able to post the exact message you get?

Does your installation span more than one disk?  Is this a dual-boot
machine?  Is there anything at all unusual about your setup?

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