From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 15 11:01:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA26297 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:01:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA26261 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:01:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA00419; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:01:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:01:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Steven Harris cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation problem - init not found In-Reply-To: <199712111540440941.0F04831E@192.168.60.1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Steven Harris wrote: > Hi, > > I am attempting to install FreeBSD 2.2.5 on a machine using the standard > boot disk. It detects the SCSI hard drives correctly but then comes up > with "cant find init" message. What has gone wrong here? Should i be > commenting out all un-necessary hardware first? No, if you're getting that then the installation must have failed before it installed any files. Try reinstalling from scratch, blowing away the slice before running the installer. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major