From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 6:17: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dfw-smtpout1.email.verio.net (dfw-smtpout1.email.verio.net [129.250.36.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 808D637B423 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 06:16:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yong@csfi.com) Received: from [129.250.38.56] (helo=dfw-corpmmp1.email.verio.net) by dfw-smtpout1.email.verio.net with esmtp id 14my0s-0001ue-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:16:54 +0000 Received: from [204.1.38.26] (helo=yongdell) by dfw-corpmmp1.email.verio.net with smtp id 14my0r-0003zb-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:16:53 +0000 From: "Yong Lim" To: Subject: can't load 'kernel' Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:18:41 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <857F15D7E3D8D3118D290008C7CF058602C97612@mail-naeast1.brooks.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm a newbie and subscript to the newbies mailing list but it said I should ask questions here. I don't subscript to this list therefore if you can answer my question could you send respond directly to me. I just got an HP Kayak PII 400 from eBay and install 4.2 on it and this is what I get when I first reboot the system. By the way after a few install I borrowed a copy of Win98 and after a long install Win98 came up okay. Here's the display message on a new install and reboot: BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 638kB/129984kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (jkh@bento.FreeBSD.org, Mon Nov 20 11:41:23 GMT 2000) Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt Booting [kernel]... can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' It is also take quite awhile between the line "(jkh@bento..." to the "Hit [Enter..." Then of course the "Booting [kernel]" and "can't load" takes a few minutes. I'm not sure whether the system is bad or I missed some steps in the installation. I had install a 4.0 awhile back with success. Any help will be appreciated... Yong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message