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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-was.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP! It won't boot! Date: 31 Mar 1997 18:44:09 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5hp0lp$b82@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <333B010D.2A2D@hotmail.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38461 Matthew Devney <mdevney@hotmail.com> wrote: > I installed 2.2.1 release using floppies, 'cause my CD's not > supported. Now the machine won't boot! it says it can't find > /kernel. The installation is busted. Is there still the /kernel.GENERIC file around? Use it then. Simply type `?' at the boot prompt to see which files are in the root directory. If the kernel file is all that's missing, it's no big deal. Let's hope there are not more files missing. Curious: what kind of CD drive do you have? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)