From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 13 18:14:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-107-33.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.107.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B69F37B417 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 18:14:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C79A366E8B; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 18:14:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 18:14:43 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Dustin C." Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.4 on Low Memory Computer Message-ID: <20020113181443.A20435@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <001101c19c9c$b97b2090$7c4ea218@nafj53dan292rg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0F1p//8PRICkK4MW" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001101c19c9c$b97b2090$7c4ea218@nafj53dan292rg>; from dustin@jam.rr.com on Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 05:42:23PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 05:42:23PM -0800, Dustin C. wrote: > I have a computer that is old. It has something like 8-11MB of RAM > (It cannot hold anymore). FreeBSD installs just fine. But when I try > to boot, I get an error saying something like "/kernel not found" > and thats as far as it goes. Does anyone know how I could get it to > work? Sounds like it didn't really install properly :) Taking a wild guess, maybe the kernel was installed as kernel.GENERIC - what happens if you give it that name? Failing that, please reproduce exactly what it says on the previous few lines before giving the error message and we can go from there. Kris --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8Qj8TWry0BWjoQKURAskeAKDvgsMxydsAsWrmvUaamuDA/8efKwCgqvk4 U93SCNPZP8PVcAt+mXvML/Y= =aqib -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message