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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: /kernel not found...
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 17:28:58 +6500 (MST)
Cc: napalm@halycon.co, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970331145614.2402B-100000@localhost> from "Doug White" at Mar 31, 97 02:57:36 pm
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It seems that Doug White said:
> 
> On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Minocycline wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to install FreeBSD on my IBM Compatable 486 (DX)...  
> > My goal is to be able to run FreeBSD or MS-DOS as i choose, or in other 
> > words to have boath operating systems installed on my PC.   I make a
> > installation
> > disk as said in the install instructions, and booted it, and the boot
> > program
> > tells me "/kernel not found" over and over again no matter what I do at
> > the 
> > boot: prompt... what should I do?
> 
> Are you sure it installed properly?
> 
> Are you doing 
> 
> wd(0,a)/kernel
> 
> at the boot: prompt?

I believe this is one of the consequences of the "unable to install
bin" message we were discussing previously...

--don