From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 2: 6:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout00.sul.t-online.de (mailout00.sul.t-online.de [194.25.134.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93BDE37BB75 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 02:06:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Meerwaldt@t-online.de) Received: from fwd07.sul.t-online.de by mailout00.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 12d8Er-0002Fu-01; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:06:09 +0200 Received: from server.wes.mee.com (320044045192-0001@[193.158.179.101]) by fwd07.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 12d8Ep-2CDG2iC; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:06:07 +0200 Received: from server.wes.mee.com (server.wes.mee.com [192.168.1.1]) by server.wes.mee.com (8.9.3/FreeBSD V4.0) with ESMTP id KAA01338; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 10:17:38 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 10:17:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Meerwaldt@t-online.de (Frederik Meerwaldt) To: Benny Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: === FreeBSD 4.0 on Compaq Proliant 1600 === In-Reply-To: <000901bf9f97$f27b2ce0$3fcb15a5@Singtel> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: 320044045192-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If only kernel.GENERIC is there, you should try a boot /kernel.GENERIC It's not common that only the gerneric Kernel is there, but perhaps you have deleted the kernel file, or something like that. If you have luck with this, you can: cp /kernel.GENERIC /kernel and the loader should be happy again HTH -- Best regards, Freddy Homepage: fmeerwaldt.homepage.com Last update: 11.03.2000 Very good OpenVMS HowTo's, DHCPD Howto, VXT2k NetBooting HowTo, and a little bit about me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NetBSD Vax, Alpha, i386. Tru64 Unix, OpenVMS, FreeBSD, Ultrix. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Benny wrote: > I have a problem installing FreeBSD 4.0 on Compaq Proliant 1600R. From the SmartStart software, I > configure the machine to be booted from the RAID drive. > > The installation seems working fine. When the machine was rebooted from thr RAID drive, I saw that the BTX > loader prints "Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf". > Suddenly after that, the OS reports that "can't load > /kernel". What's went wrong? From the "ok" prompt, I issue "lsdev" and the RAID drive was identified as > disk1s1a (/) and disk1s1e (/usr). Current device is > disk1s1a. I issue another command, "ls" at the prompt > and I saw that the kernel and kernel.GENERIC resides there. So I try to load the kernel with the "load kernel" command, but I got a "don't know how to load kernel" message. > > What possibly did I miss? > > Anyone can help me? > > Regards, > Benny > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message