Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:43:55 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> To: Mygamejw <mygamejw@aol.com> Cc: "freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org>, "jonathanince@aol.com" <jonathanince@aol.com> Subject: Re: Newbbie Issue (JP) - installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a HP Notebook Message-ID: <20110718204354.GA37830@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <A155B9F8-E0BD-4719-9C3C-A0066C85F3E1@aol.com> References: <A155B9F8-E0BD-4719-9C3C-A0066C85F3E1@aol.com>
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--3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This belongs in freebsd-questions unless you have reasonable grounds to believe the problem is ACPI related. On 2011-Jul-15 17:49:17 -0700, Mygamejw <mygamejw@aol.com> wrote: >I recently got FreeBSD 8.1 for a present Note that FreeBSD 8.1 has been superceded by FreeBSD 8.2, which is available for download from (eg) ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.2/ Do you know which FreeBSD 8.1 image you have? > The issue I am having is related to a possible =20 >hacker who has gotten into her system. That's unlikely unless you burnt the CD/DVD on that system and it was corruted by malware on the system. >yet. I wanted to ask before I do because of my inexperience with =20 >FreeBSD. Any time that I try to boot the pc after pressing #6 option I =20 >get a crash notice saying the following at the end of a massive reset =20 >notice: Is there a reason you are using option #6 instead of allowing it to boot normally? >init: not found in path /sbin/init:/sbin/ >d/sysinstall I'm not sure if that's what was displayed or you've mis-typed the message but the correct path is: /sbin/init:/sbin/oinit:/sbin/init.bak:/rescue/init:/stand/sysinstall (and it should be loading /stand/sysinstall) I suspect you either have a corrupt CD/DVD image or (possibly) are using the bootonly image instead of one of the installation images. If you have a valid installation image, the screen or so of output prior to that message would help with debugging - you could take a digital photo of the screen and post a link. --=20 Peter Jeremy --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk4kmwoACgkQ/opHv/APuIdHcACfWEFZsLfr9hqUpBe5MdHh88b/ 80UAn2orbB2d1XxRIBhCvjR/h4jl3Dqf =/Wmw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF--
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