Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 08:30:02 -0600 From: "DINKEY,GENE (Non-HP-Loveland,ex1)" <charles_dinkey@non.hp.com> To: "'Tom Hines'" <tomhines2@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: custom kernel won't boot Message-ID: <F341E03C8ED6D311805E00902761278C5313B7@xfc04.fc.hp.com>
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My understand is that shouldn't prevent the OS loader from detecting the HDD and booting the kernel. If I recall don't you have to "load" the kernel image into memory before you can boot it (been a while since I've been in the boot loader). Also there may be something wrong with the hard disk... Gene (Please do not "reply to" as my return email address is broken, please send reply's to gene_dinkey@hp.com) >-----Original Message----- >From: Tom Hines [mailto:tomhines2@hotmail.com] >Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 8:14 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: custom kernel won't boot > > >I just built and installed a custom kernel for the first time, >but it won't >boot and I can't boot the old kernel either. I type "boot >kernel.old" at >the boot loader and it can't find the root partition. It says >there's no >device ad. > >What gives? Why can't it find my root partition? I figured I >didn't add >support for my IDE controller in my kernel config file, but I >thought I did. > >Any ideas? > >Tom Hines >Rockville, MD >_______________________________________________________________ >_________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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