From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 14 14:17:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spike.brainlink.com (spike.brainlink.com [206.127.59.100]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 962C243B5 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 14:17:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from spork@localhost) by spike.brainlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA76306 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 17:12:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spork) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 17:12:50 -0500 From: Spike Gronim To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 3.4 installation problems. Message-ID: <20000214171250.A76281@spike.brainlink.com> Reply-To: gronimw@stuy.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i X-PGP-Public-Key: http://www.gronim.com/spike/pubkey.asc X-PGP-fingerprint: 05 92 88 05 3C DB F2 40 AB 1D AE 2A F0 E5 FA A5 X-Geek-Code: http://www.gronim.com/spike/geekcode Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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