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Date:      Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:06:16 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Peter Karlsson <peter@perkele.coyote.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   "Can't find file boot.config"
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.peterpatch.tng.980708020125.231A-100000@dat95pkn.campus.mdh.se>

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Hi there!

I just installed FreeBSD on my system, to try it out, but I can't get it to
start. I installed it into the partition ("slice") that Linux calls
/dev/hdc3, a 674 Mbyte partition. This contains a 64 Mbyte swap area (I have
64 Mbyte RAM), and the rest as the root partition (I prefer to have it all
in one file system).

But, I can't get it to boot. Since my computer already carry DR-DOS/Win3,
OS/2, Win95 and Linux, using IBM BootManager, I didn't install FreeBSD's
BootManager, but instead added the partition to the IBM BootManager. My
problem now is that if I try to select the FreeBSD partition from the Boot
Manager, all I get is this:


Can't find file boot.config
Can't find file boot.help

[...]

Boot default: 1:wd(1,a)kernel

boot:


and if I press Enter, it says


Can't find kernel


I'm at a loss what to do here, I haven't seen anything like this with any of
the other OSes I've installed. Any help is appreciated!

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