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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 1997 14:57:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Minocycline <napalm@halycon.co>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /kernel not found...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970331145614.2402B-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <33400D4E.248E@halycon.co>

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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




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