From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 13 12:07:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA21081 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:07:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA21076 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:07:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA01288; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:07:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Eli cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Eli wrote: > I am new to the unix world and I decided to give FreeBSD a try. Well, I > downloaded the boot image, and successfully booted from a floppy. I then > went through the installation menu, and I thought I installed correctly > from CD-ROM. (NOTE: The FreeBSD CD I have is not from Walnut Creek CD, but > from another distributer: Trans-Ameritech.) Now, when I boot without the > floppy, the boot manager kicks in and lets me select my Win95 or BSD. I > select BSD. Then the boot screen comes up (the one where it waits 5 seconds > and has the Boot prompt) and I let it wait 5 seconds. Then it comes back > saying "Cannot find /kernel". I know that BSD can't find the kernel in the > /kernel directory, but I don't know why? Did I do something wrong? Please > get back to me soon, as I am eager to get started. Thanks. Either something went wrong with your installation, or you have a unusual disk setup. You'll need to give the disk explicitly. Try doing something like wd(0,a)/kernel where 0 is the disk number (0 & 1 on the first controller, 2 & 3 on the second controller). If this is a scsi device then write 'sd' instead of 'wd'. You didn't tell me your disk setup so this is all I can do for now. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo