Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:37:19 +0800 From: "Rino Mardo" <rmardo@yahoo.com> To: "Joseph Maxwell" <jaymax@sac.verio.net>, "Free BSD_Users" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installation problem - v 4.2 Message-ID: <001201c129ff$9a6b3100$31a145ca@rino> References: <3B81ABF5.166865E6@sac.verio.net>
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> Hello,
> I am experiencing a "can't load kernel" condition after a clean
> installation.
>
> Just put together this box ===>
>
> Award Bios v6.00PG 1984-99 (AI6IS019) AMD 751
> Main Processor: AMD Athlon 900mHz
> Memory: 512 Mb
> Diskette Drive A: 1.44 Mb 3.5 in
> Diskette Drive B: 1.2 Mb 5.25 in
> Pri Master Disk: LBA, UDMA 66, 40 Gb
> Pri Slave Disk: Samsung VG33402A 3.4 Gb
> Sec Master Disk: CD-ROM4, Mode3. Matshita CR-572 1.2g
> Sec Slave Disk: None
>
> Device Class IRQ's
> IDE Controller 14
> Serial Bus Controller 11
> Multimedia Device 10
> Simple COMM Controller 5
> Display Controller NA
> Network Controller 11
> ACPI Controller 9
>
> {just realized possible IRQ conflict - serial bus & network controllers
> sharing the same IRQ}
> ________________________________________
>
> Did initial boot w/ MSDOS 6.2 disk, apparently mfsroot.flp, and boot.flp
> were not needed on the floppies, then install seemed to run from CDROM.
> Created partition slices, boot manager etc. seemed fine. Sysinstall, had
> 7 potential network related conflicts, reduced to none after leaving
> only the one onboard driver active. On reboot the following occurred
> ===>
>
> after verification of DMI pool
>
> F1 FreeBSD
> F2 DOS
> F3 Linux
> F5 Drive 1
> Default: F1
>
> BTX loader 1.00 BTX Version is 1.01
> Console: internal video/keyboard
> BIOS Drive A: is disk 0
> BIOS Drive B: is disk 1
> BIOS Drive C: is disk 2
> {then some memory info here}
> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
> {------------}
> loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> Unable to load kernel
> Aborted!
> can't load 'kernel'
> Can't load 'kernel-old'
>
> Suggestions & recommendations desired.
suggestion - FreeBSD Handbook
seems to me FreeBSD boot can't find your "/"
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