From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 3 02:51:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA14352 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 02:51:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA14346; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 02:51:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA13994; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 11:50:56 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA25510; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 11:50:55 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id LAA01082; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 11:39:48 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611031039.LAA01082@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: i386/1948: On bootup after Installation, Says "Cant find /kernel" To: sedriss@prophet-indy.org, questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 11:39:47 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199611030705.XAA01836@freefall.freebsd.org> from "sedriss@prophet-indy.org" at "Nov 2, 96 11:05:48 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As sedriss@prophet-indy.org wrote: > After Installation of FreeBSD, I reboot the machine, and on bootup, > it says, "Can't find /kernel" and repeats to the startup screen, > doing this in an ongoing loop. > >How-To-Repeat: > Turn on the machine. This is a very poorly written PR, sorry. The question `How-To-Repeat' was meant as `how could somebody else repeat this?'. Very obviously, several 10000 FreeBSD machines on the world cannot repeat your problem by simply turning on the machine, instead they boot up as intended. You're suffering from some installation problem, but didn't go into any further detail to describe it. I'm going to close this PR (since it's useless as it stands), and kindly ask you to direct your questions to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. In particular, describe how you have installed the system, what's the geometry settings, what's the output at the boot prompt after entering a `?' etc. Once you know what's going wrong, and you are sure that it is actually a genuine bug in the installation procedure or operating system, we can re-open the PR if you submit sufficient details to actually find and fix such a bug. If you intend this, simply send mail to FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, with a subject line of ``i386/1948''. The GNATS system will record your mail in the audit- trail of the PR then. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)