From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 18 15:29:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14812 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:29:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14798 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:29:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA08730; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:28:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:28:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Tom Davies cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linking to kernel In-Reply-To: <199808182015.OAA21183@scratchy.itsnet.com> 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 Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Tom Davies wrote: > After installing the distributions from a DOS partition (bin, doc, man, and > ports) I got a "cannot link to kernel" error message. What does this mean > and how can I resolve the problem? That usually means there was a problem installing the bin distribution. Double check that all the files exist and there is sufficient space dedicated to the root partition. Also check the ALT-F2 debug console for messages. 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