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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!chi From: chi@netcom.com (Curt Hagenlocher) Subject: [FreeBSD] Help on first time Install Message-ID: <chiCED1qD.Dp0@netcom.com> Summary: "error loading operating system" Keywords: FreeBSD Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 06:51:49 GMT Lines: 29 I downloaded the epsilon floppy distribution (kcopy-ah-floppy, filesystem-floppy, cpio-floppy) recently, and have run into the following problem. The first step, creating a disk partition, seems to succeed. The second step, copying the kernel to the disk partition, also seems to succeed. However, when I proceed to reboot the system, all I get is the message "Error loading operating system". I've got a clone 486/33, 16 MB RAM Adaptec 1542 SCSI controller ID0 = 500 MB Fujitsu drive, 380 MB DOS partition ID1 = TOSHIBA CDROM Novell NE2000 Soundblaster Tseng ET4000-based video card. I had previously succeeded in installing the original Tiny386BSD kernel onto this system, although the system would repeatedly die once I tried to expand the binary distribution files. Any pointers on what might be wrong? -- -- Curt Hagenlocher "Log on, Garth" chi@netcom.com "Log on, Wayne"