From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 17 10:36:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA24766 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 10:36:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from subcellar.mwci.net (subcellar.mwci.net [205.254.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA24759 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 10:36:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbutt@mwci.net) Received: from subcellar.mwci.net (subcellar.mwci.net [205.254.160.2]) by subcellar.mwci.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA26282; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:36:05 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:36:05 -0500 (CDT) From: "James D. Butt" To: Bill Sandiford cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help!!!!!!!!!!!! In-Reply-To: <01bcdb19$35f97ee0$01a06bcf@huey.interlinks.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have just installed FreeBSD 2.2.2 for the first time. > In fact, I have never installed any UNIX before. > After the install was complete the system rebooted. Now it won't load, I am > getting a message that says : > Boot: > dosdev = 80, biosdrive = 0, unit = 0, maj = 4 > Can't find /kernel if you hit "?" it should give you a list of files in the root directory when I just installed it. It called the default kernel kernel.GENERIC So you just type kernel.GENERIC it will then boot and when you log in copy kernel.GENERIC to kernel unless of course you plan to re-compile the kernel. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- James D. Butt 'J.D.' Network Engineer Voice 319-557-8463 Network Operations Center Fax 319-557-9771 MidWest Communications, Inc. Pager 319-557-6347 241 Main St. noc@mwci.net Dubuque, IA 52001 jbutt@mwci.net --------------------------------------------------------------------------