Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 17:12:50 -0500 From: Spike Gronim <william@brainlink.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 3.4 installation problems. Message-ID: <20000214171250.A76281@spike.brainlink.com>
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Hello. I've got a problem installing FreeBSD 3.4 on an old 100MHz Pentium box. I've created two floppies using the images on the 1st 3.4 CD. The kernel loads, and then the mfs_root image loads as well (lsmod from the boot loader reveals that both are being loaded). The kernel boots, and after device configuration all the devices in the system are successfully detected. However, at the end of the boot process, after "changing root device to fd0a", the kernel can not find init or sysinstall, as if it were not looking in the MFS image for them. With the verbose flag set I can see it trying /sbin/init, /sbin/init.bak, /sbin/oinit, and /stand/sysinstall, none of which it finds. I've never had such a problem with FreeBSD installs before. How should I go about convincing this thing that it has sysinstall? Please CC: directly to me as I do not subscribe to this list. Thank you. -- --Spike Gronim gronimw@stuy.edu "Oh yes? An obscene triangle which, has more courage than the word." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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