From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 17 13:40:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DED4616A498 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 13:40:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from typhoon.he.net (typhoon.he.net [64.62.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE1DD43D5C for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 13:40:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from liam.billschoolcraft.com ([63.204.157.14]) by typhoon.he.net for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 06:40:08 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 06:40:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-X-Sender: bill@liam.billschoolcraft.com To: Steve Bertrand In-Reply-To: <20060517130323.1B56643D72@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: References: <20060517130323.1B56643D72@mx1.FreeBSD.org> System-ID: [en] (SuSE-9.3 64-bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: mattr@eagle.ca, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.1 'No kernel found' after install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 13:40:19 -0000 At Wed, 17 May 2006 it looks like Steve Bertrand composed: > Hey everyone, > > I downloaded FreeBSD 6.1 yesterday, ensured the checksum was correct, > and promptly expanded the ISO onto a CD. > > After seemingly successfully installing it onto a box (I have several > other of these exact machines running 5 and 6.0), after reboot, it > claims it can't find the kernel. I've ls'd pretty much all of the > directories on the hard disk, and sure enough, it doesn't appear the > kernel was installed. (I performed the install 4 times to be sure). > That happened to me the first time, but worked the second time and I knew the second install was different than the first install for I was all of a sudden presented with single gui "install-questions" regarding users, and stuff like that. Not what I did different the second time other than resize the partitions by a slight amount to ensure that nothing from the previous install was used, even a previously formatted partition. It installed the second try. > The only really relevant thing I found whilst searching was this: > > http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=400340&tstart=0 > > ...however, to my best knowledge, I did only do a minimum install. > > Again, the setup is exactly the same as several other machines, I can > provide details if they may help. One thing that may be relevant is that > I'm running with the 'ar' driver for a Promise RAID-1 config. Again, > this setup works with the exact same installation technique under 6. > > I'm going to continue to play around, but if anyone has any clues, they > would be much appreciated. > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com "If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert."