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Date:      Sun, 11 Jul 2004 17:46:10 -0500
From:      Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jeff Erickson <jperickson@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Person new to FreeBSD needs help...
Message-ID:  <20040711174610.5a3045fa@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net>
In-Reply-To: <378014850407111357c9085bc@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 14:57:12 -0600
Jeff Erickson <jperickson@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

For some reason your install failed... what hardware and version?

Last time I've seen something like that it was a bad CD drive.



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