From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 7 1:39:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C70E814E2D for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 01:39:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA97475; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:40:35 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:40:35 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Kai Schmidt Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing 3.3 on a Multia In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Kai Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to install Free BSD 3.3 on a Multia last night. > > I used the two floppies from the 4.0 snapshot which worked fine on the > 3.1 install. Everything went smooth Free BSD seems to install. > > After the sucessful install I tred to reboot the system and failed. I > did a boot dka0 -flags a. But with or without flags the system starts > coming up and wants to boot /boot/kernel. There it fails, because it > is unable to open /boot/kernel. > > On this machine I had running Red Hat 6.0 sucessfully before. > > Any hints? Exactly what message is printed when it fails to boot? -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message