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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!nigel.msen.com!usenet From: Mark Taylor <mtaylor@cybernet.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD 1.0 boot problem... Date: 3 Nov 1993 16:40:13 GMT Organization: Cybernet Systems Lines: 28 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2b8mtd$5uo@nigel.msen.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.245.33.12 X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d24 X-XXDate: Wed, 3 Nov 93 11:40:40 GMT Hello- "I've just installed..." FreeBSD 1.0, and I'm having problems booting it. I've downloaded the floppy files, created the three disks, and installed the system on my hard drive (with no apparent problems). Now, when I try to boot from the newly installed hard drive kernel, I get the following messages: cyl 0 0 hd 0 sect 0 dev 4 unit 0 off 0 File not found - didn't load 386bsd, will try 386bsd.alt File not found - didn't load 386bsd.alt, will try 386bsd.old File not found - didn't load 386bsd.old, will try boot and it hangs there (I've left it there for hours). My hardware is an Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller, internally terminated and terminated at the hard drive, which is a Conner 3200 (203 Mb) drive (previously used for DOS, but not anymore). My motherboard is from Texas Micro, and it is a 386SX/20 with a floating point coprocessor and 4Mb of memory. Can anyone please tell me why I can't boot? And how to fix it? -Mark J. Taylor mtaylor@cybernet.com