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Subject: Re: Installation problem - v 4.2
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:37:19 +0800
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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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