> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:43:04 -0600
> From: Benjamin Sher <delphi123@zebra.net>
>
> Dear Kevin:
>
> You sure know your stuff, Kevin. No question about it. I am almost
> there. The only problem is that when I boot up to the new FreeBSD system
> (CD unselected and hardrive selected in boot sequence), I get a kind of
> login that says:
>
> FreeBS/i386 boot
> Default: 1: ad (1,a) default
> No /boot/kernel/kernel
>
> Then
>
> Default: 1: ad(1,a)/ boot/kernel/kernel
> boot: default No default
>
> There are no root hash marks or whatever. It's just as it appears
above.
>
> What does this mean, please?
>
> By the way, I checked my Windows. Everything is fine.
Lots of folks know this stuff a lot better than I do.
Let me get this clear. You start the boot and get the:
F1 DOS
F5 Drive 1
Default: F1
You press F5. Do you see this? Or the loader prompt noted in your message?
F1 FreeBSD
F5 Drive 0
Default: F1
The loader prompt is telling you that the loader is not finding your
kernel. Did you transcribe the second message exactly? Is there really a
space after the first slash?
Default: 1: ad(1,a)/ boot/kernel/kernel
or is it really
Default: 1:ad(1,a)/boot/kernel/kernel
Try entering:
1:ad(1,a)/boot/loader
This is what SHOULD be the default.
I fear that something in your FreeBSD installation is broken, but I am
not sure what.
I am going off-line for the night, so I won't see any further messages
until tomorrow morning.
By the way, the date on your messages are wrong.
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:43:04 -0600 (16:43 PST)
PST is -0800, not -0600. I received the message at 15:40:50 -0800 (PST).
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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