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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!newsflash.concordia.ca!news.mcgill.ca!lisa.cs.mcgill.ca!sarrazip From: sarrazip@cs.mcgill.ca (Pierre Sarrazin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problems when installing 2.1.0-RELEASE Date: 28 Apr 1996 08:48:11 GMT Organization: McGill University, Montreal Lines: 56 Message-ID: <4lvbcb$8jm@lisa.cs.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: maggie.cs.mcgill.ca Summary: Installation procedure can't find a kernel image. I'm having problems installing FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE. I can't seem to get a valid kernel on the hard disk. I have a 486DX2-66 with a 1.2M drive for A:, a 1.4M drive for B:, a Maxtor 72004 AP (3893 cyl, 16 heads, 63 sec/cyl) as a master hard disk, and a Caviar 2340 (1010, 12, 55) as a slave. There is no CD-ROM drive. I'm installing with two 1.2M floppies (boot.flp and root.flp) and the bin distribution is on the slave disk. My BIOS is old and doesn't support hard disks with more than 1024 cylinders, but an appropriate driver from Maxtor loads itself when I boot from the hard disk; I can then see the slave disk as D:. I've been able to access the entire disk under DOS (5.0) and also under 2.1.0's installation floppy's kernel. No apparent problem there: that kernel sees all of the disk even though the Maxtor driver isn't loaded when booting from a floppy, of course. No problems when partitioning the drive: the 1st slice is 478M big and has DOS 5.0 on it (just enough to boot, no C:\DOS directory). The 2nd slice is the same size and I've given it the type "freebsd". No problems with the Disklabel Editor stuff: wd0s1 <none> 478MB DOS wd0s2a / 20MB UFS Y wd0s2b <none> 32MB SWAP wd0s2e /usr 426MB UFS Y Under "Distributions", I select "Clear" because I intend to get the bin distribution from the slave disk (on it, there is a 60MB DOS partition and then a 265MB FreeBSD 2.0.5 partition; in the latter's filesystem, I've stored the bin.?? files I'll need; I intend to extract the bindist myself). Under the "Media" menu, I don't know precisely what to choose, since I don't want to extract any distribution. When I select "Commit", the installation starts well but at some point it starts complaining that it doesn't find a kernel image to link to on the root file system. Other times, it complains about not finding the root image. This is confusing because I don't always follow the program's reasoning. Things seemed to be easier before the installation procedure was made user-friendly... I've tried select "DOS partition" as the "media" and putting boot.flp and root.flp in C:\FREEBSD\FLOPPIES, C:\FREEBSD and C:\, but all those tries failed. I also tried with floppies as the media with a DOS 1.2M floppy with root.flp on it but that failed too. So I don't know what it is exactly the procedure is looking for. Am I attempting the impossible? -- Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip@cs.mcgill.ca> [Montreal]