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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.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 - boot error msg "can't find kernel Date: 18 Apr 1997 19:31:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5j8i6r$5mt@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5i9lnc$7tl$1@arl-news-svc-2.compuserve.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:39337 <102334.2346@compuserve.com> wrote: > installed 2.1.7 on old 386 20. Install went fine, but on booting > from drive, I get the message dosdev = 80, biosdrive = 0, unit = 0, > maj = 0 can't find /kernel Well, seems there is no /kernel around, but i bet you already knew this. :) If you're uncertain whether /kernel is the only missing file, it's probably best to reinstall from scratch. If you think it's the only one, try to boot /kernel.GENERIC instead. You can later copy this file to /kernel. -- 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. ;-)