From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 11:59:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from [140.32.132.66] (capella.nps.navy.mil [131.120.254.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2726C37B418 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:59:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from no.name.available by [140.32.132.66] via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) with SMTP; 27 Jun 2002 19:04:14 UT Received: from nps.navy.mil (budden.ro.nps.navy.mil [131.120.179.253]) by capella.nps.navy.mil (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5RIka4X024464 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:46:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D1B6070.9030502@nps.navy.mil> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:58:56 -0700 From: Rex Buddenberg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; N; PPC; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001108 Netscape6/6.0 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: can't boot kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just upgraded a laptop from FreeBSD 4.4 to 4.6 using the Upgrade function in sysinstall (ftp option). The upgrade seemed to go without a hitch (except that the ftp session bombed overnight and I had to restart it ... which worked). At conclusion, the message said something like installation successful, /etc recovered, time to reboot. I issued 'shutdown now -r'. The screen froze partway out of X so I killed the volts and turned the machine back on. I now get: can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' no bootable kernel ok which is clearly not OK. 1. What happened? 2. How do I fix? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message