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Date:      Mon, 16 May 2005 11:37:18 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        olivier@gautherot.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Impossible install of 5.4
Message-ID:  <20050516183718.GA50140@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200505161726.43437.oliviergautherot@free.fr>
References:  <200505161726.43437.oliviergautherot@free.fr>

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On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 05:26:42PM +0200, Olivier Gautherot wrote:
> Hi folks!
>=20
> I've tried to install 5.4 but can't boot the disk. I see a FreeBSD prompt=
 (the=20
> master boot selector being a Linux version of grub) but it complains abou=
t a=20
> missing /kernel.

I guess you have some remnants of 4.x on this machine: 5.x looks for
/boot/kernel/kernel, not /kernel.  Make sure your loader and boot
blocks are up-to-date.

Kris

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