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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>

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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


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