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From: sedriss@prophet-indy.org
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Subject: On bootup after Installation, Says "Cant find /kernel"
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>Number:         1948
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       On bootup after Installation, Says "Cant find /kernel"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Nov  2 23:10:02 PST 1996
>Closed-Date:    Sun Nov 3 11:48:06 MET 1996
>Last-Modified:  Sun Nov  3 03:00:03 PST 1996
>Originator:     Benjamin Vaughn
>Release:        2.1.5
>Organization:
Prophet Network Services
>Environment:
Havent gotten that far (i486-50, 16m ram, 2 ide hd's)
>Description:
After Installation of FreeBSD, I reboot the machine, and on bootup, it says,
"Can't find /kernel"  and repeats to the startup screen, doing this in an ongoing
loop.
>How-To-Repeat:
Turn on the machine.
>Fix:
No clue.  I had installed FreeBSD before on the same machine, and now it mysteriously
does not work.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: joerg 
State-Changed-When: Sun Nov 3 11:48:06 MET 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
This PR doesn't provide enough information to even decide whether it's 
a genuine bug in the installation program or in the operating system. 

In case the originator provides enough input to show the bug, it should 
be re-opened.  Right now, there's nothing that can be done here, sorry. 


From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To: sedriss@prophet-indy.org, questions@freebsd.org
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: i386/1948: On bootup after Installation, Says "Cant find /kernel"
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 11:39:47 +0100 (MET)

 As sedriss@prophet-indy.org wrote:
 
 > After Installation of FreeBSD, I reboot the machine, and on bootup,
 > it says, "Can't find /kernel" and repeats to the startup screen,
 > doing this in an ongoing loop.
 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > Turn on the machine.
 
 This is a very poorly written PR, sorry.
 
 The question `How-To-Repeat' was meant as `how could somebody else
 repeat this?'.  Very obviously, several 10000 FreeBSD machines on the
 world cannot repeat your problem by simply turning on the machine,
 instead they boot up as intended.
 
 You're suffering from some installation problem, but didn't go into
 any further detail to describe it.
 
 I'm going to close this PR (since it's useless as it stands), and
 kindly ask you to direct your questions to
 freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.  In particular, describe how you have
 installed the system, what's the geometry settings, what's the output
 at the boot prompt after entering a `?' etc.
 
 Once you know what's going wrong, and you are sure that it is actually
 a genuine bug in the installation procedure or operating system, we
 can re-open the PR if you submit sufficient details to actually find
 and fix such a bug.  If you intend this, simply send mail to
 FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, with a subject line of
 ``i386/1948''.  The GNATS system will record your mail in the audit-
 trail of the PR then.
 
 -- 
 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. ;-)
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