From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 10 12:06:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24275 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:06:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24261 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:06:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA25255; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:06:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 12:06:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Kurt Jones cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Won't boot after install In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980510093017.00b73a30@woftam.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 May 1998, Kurt Jones wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have done an install of 2.2.6-R following the "novice" section in the > installation utility. I setup my disks, select the distributions I want > (only binaries for a very small install) and watch while the files come in > from the FTP site. When it is complete I exit the installation utility and > reboot as instructed. > > On startup all I get is: > > Can't find file boot.config > Can't find file boot.help > boot: > Can't find kernel > > What have I done wrong? The installation failed. Delete the partition and try again, and watch for error messages (especially on the ALT-F2 debug console). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message