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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 14:57:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Minocycline <napalm@halycon.co>
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Subject: Re: /kernel not found...
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On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Minocycline wrote:

> I'm trying to install FreeBSD on my IBM Compatable 486 (DX)...  
> My goal is to be able to run FreeBSD or MS-DOS as i choose, or in other 
> words to have boath operating systems installed on my PC.   I make a
> installation
> disk as said in the install instructions, and booted it, and the boot
> program
> tells me "/kernel not found" over and over again no matter what I do at
> the 
> boot: prompt... what should I do?

Are you sure it installed properly?

Are you doing 

wd(0,a)/kernel

at the boot: prompt?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major