From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 25 10:59: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from knock.econ.vt.edu (knock.econ.vt.edu [128.173.172.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B7A37B7AC for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:58:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdmurphy@knock.econ.vt.edu) Received: (from rdmurphy@localhost) by knock.econ.vt.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA01423; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:58:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rdmurphy) From: "Russell D. Murphy Jr." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14717.54625.148495.28207@knock.econ.vt.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:58:57 -0400 (EDT) To: Kevin Oberman Cc: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com, FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "can't load kernel" after build/install world/kernel In-Reply-To: <200007251646.e6PGkZU26543@ptavv.es.net> References: <14717.48372.534815.567538@knock.econ.vt.edu> <200007251646.e6PGkZU26543@ptavv.es.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 9) "Canyonlands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: rdmurphy@vt.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think the problem is elsewhere: as indicated below, I can't see *anything*. There should be kernel, kernel.old, kernel.GENERIC, and kernel.GENERIC.old, but boot always generates: can't find '' John Reynolds suggested that I might have something odd in /boot/loader.conf; it's quite possible, but it seems more likely that I've somehow made / unreachable (??). Russ According to Kevin Oberman (July 25, 2000): | > ok ls | > open '/' failed: no such file or directory | | You say you did a buildkernel. Did you specify a kernel name? If not, | you can try GENERIC. | | Boot to the boot prompt ("ok") and enter "boot GENERIC -s". That | should load and boot a kernel named 'GENERIC'. If you specified a | kernel name to buildkernel and installkernel, use that name in place | of 'GENERIC'. -- Russell D. Murphy Department of Economics Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 3034 Pamplin Hall Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0316 (540) 231-4537 rdmurphy@vt.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message