Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 08:22:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "G. Jason Middleton" <gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu> To: User & Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: boot disks not working Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31L.02.0107240822230.17147-100000@linux1.gl.umbc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010723213041.A6040@localhost>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
yes i am using all the right disks and even the ISO...installed BSD many times and never had this error before. Jason On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, User & Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > As it was put forth by G. Jason Middleton on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 06:19:15PM -0400... > > yes i have that disk as well...it does not even get that far before it > > craps out. > > > > > > Is there anything I have to do special for a Pentium Pro install? On SCSI > > hard drives? > > > > > > Jason > > > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, User & Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > > > > > As it was put forth by G. Jason Middleton on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:00:14PM -0400... > > > > I have created mutiple kern.flp disks using fdimage > > > > > > > > fdimage kern.flp a: > > > > > > > > and when i boot from them i keeop getting this error: > > > > > > > > can't load module '/kernel': no such file or directory > > > > > > > > > > > > Any ideas what this could be? The flppies are good. and i have tried > > > > downloading it from the 4.2 and 4.3 releases and keep getting the same > > > > error. > > > > > > > > Any help would be great! > > > > > > > > Jason > > > > > > > > > > > > G. Jason Middleton > > > > > > Did you also get mfsroot.flp? I think it's kern.flp first and then > > > mfsroot.flp. It's been a while so I could be wrong. > > > > > > Ian > > > > > > > G. Jason Middleton > > > > First, try to do a full format of the floppy and try fdimage again. > Second, are you using the 1.44 image or the 1.2 image? 1.44 is the one you > want. I guess, last is to burn an ISO and boot from that. Of course this > is assuming that you have a CD burner and a decent download speed. One > more thing, maybe download the file again and check to see if the size you > get matches the size listed at the ftp site. > > Ian > G. Jason Middleton _______________________________________________________________________________ "Insert quote here" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.4.31L.02.0107240822230.17147-100000>