From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 23 18:32:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay1.adelphia.net (smtprelay1.adelphia.net [64.8.25.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7959A37B401 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:32:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scraemondaemon.my.domain ([24.49.96.3]) by smtprelay1.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GGYEVU00.O75; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:31:06 -0400 Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scraemondaemon.my.domain (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6O1UfB06250; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:30:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:30:41 -0400 From: User & Ian Patrick Thomas To: "G. Jason Middleton" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot disks not working Message-ID: <20010723213041.A6040@localhost> References: <20010723155907.D4785@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 06:19:15PM -0400 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message