From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 29 10:45:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA04510 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 10:45:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA04505 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 10:45:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA16248; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 10:44:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 10:44:56 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Goeringer, Michael" cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: 2.2.5 Unable to boot floppy Image 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 Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Goeringer, Michael wrote: > Hello, > > I"ve had a 2.2.1 system running on a thinkpad without problems, > however; on installing 2.2.5 (fressh install) I am unable to boot the > floopy disk image. I get the following error > > can't find file boot.config > can't find file boot.help > >> > FreeBSd BOOT @ 0x10000: 639/19648 of memory, internal console > Boot default: 0:fd(0,a)kernel > > Boot: > can't find kernel > << > > Any suggestions? This is trying to boot the *floppy*? Try remaking your image, it looks like only the bootblocks made it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major