From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 15 23:57:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA15386 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 23:57:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.x-link.ml.org (ns2.x-link.ml.org [163.195.1.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA15374 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 23:57:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from croftonc@PARACHUTE.WCAPE.GOV.ZA) Received: from wcpes.x-link.ml.org (wcpes.x-link.ml.org [163.195.20.11]) by ns2.x-link.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA17474 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:39:52 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from croftonc@PARACHUTE.WCAPE.GOV.ZA) Received: from PARACHUTE.WCAPE.GOV.ZA (ccswc-ops.wcape.gov.za [164.151.102.250]) by wcpes.x-link.ml.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA29473 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:56:03 +0200 (SAT) Received: from PARACHUTE/SpoolDir by PARACHUTE.WCAPE.GOV.ZA (Mercury 1.21); 16 Sep 98 08:46:27 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by PARACHUTE (Mercury 1.21); 16 Sep 98 08:44:12 +0200 From: "CHARL" Organization: CCS WESTERN CAPE To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:44:04 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: (Fwd) (Fwd) Installation problems X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v3.01a) Message-ID: <62C63531F8D@PARACHUTE.WCAPE.GOV.ZA> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello folks...... Nathan, thanks for the help.......but I am still having the same problem. I still get the same message :"cannot find kernel" I tried what you suggested but it also doesn't work. The messgae I get is the same: "cannot find kernel or kernel.GENERIC" Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is release 2.2.7 ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: Self To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: (Fwd) Installation problems Date sent: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:16:18 +0200 Hi there people.... I need help. I have insatlled BSD on a old 486sx running at 33 megahertz.Anyway...after the installation ( it was from a ftp site) it says that the installation was successful and all that. Now when i reboor the system, i get these following errors : - can not find the boot.config and boot.help - freebsd boot @0x10000: 640/7424 k of memory, internal console missing kernel Let me just add that during the installation process it prompts me that " no /var filesystem was found".I am also running a dos partition in the hdrive. What can I do? Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thnx CHARL CROFTON Central Computer Services Western Cape South Africa Mail: croftonc@parachute.wcape.gov.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message