You pretty much followed what I had wrote before that when I had a similar
problem, I booted the install disk, but exited sysinstall to a shell
prompt. I then mounted the root partition, then manually copied over the
kernel from the install CD to the root partition.
That does copy over the GE
> > After a CD boot, is there a reasonably simple way to have
> > sysinstall reinstall just the kernel -- or the package
> > containing it -- without starting completely over?
>
> Yeah, see what Derek wrote. Never done that, myself, or even
> heard of the kernel not getting installed.
What Derek
--- Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perry Hutchison wrote:
> >> Well, you're at least as far as having the disk
> sliced up in a
> >> workable way, or the bootstrap wouldn't start at
> all. This jumps
> >> out as not only being bad, but happening right
> before meltdown.
> >>
> >>>
Perry Hutchison wrote:
Well, you're at least as far as having the disk sliced up in a
workable way, or the bootstrap wouldn't start at all. This jumps
out as not only being bad, but happening right before meltdown.
acpi: bad RSDP checksum (210)
I suspect it's a red herring, since I was getti
> Well, you're at least as far as having the disk sliced up in a
> workable way, or the bootstrap wouldn't start at all. This jumps
> out as not only being bad, but happening right before meltdown.
>
> > acpi: bad RSDP checksum (210)
I suspect it's a red herring, since I was getting that message
I have seen this happen where the kernel is not copied by sysinstall. I
booted the install CD but exited sysinstall to a shell prompt, mounted the
root partitiion and manually copied the kernel. You might give that a try.
-Derek
At 01:48 AM 8/23/2006, Perry Hutchison wrote:
> Recom
Perry Hutchison wrote:
Recommend you get a [bigger|second] disk if you can though,
or housecleaning will be a constant chore.
I got it more or less working, although not completely set up, and
then that 10GB disk died: click -- kerthunk -- click -- kerthunk
continuously, even after cycling pow
> Recommend you get a [bigger|second] disk if you can though,
> or housecleaning will be a constant chore.
I got it more or less working, although not completely set up, and
then that 10GB disk died: click -- kerthunk -- click -- kerthunk
continuously, even after cycling power, even with only the
Perry Hutchison wrote:
The BIOS clears the screen and loads the boot sector, then nothing.
I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, but I can say I've
installed FreeBSD x.y on just about every flavor of Dell hardware
without much trouble, so it should work for you. Disclaimer: the
Dimension l
> > The BIOS clears the screen and loads the boot sector, then nothing.
>
> I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, but I can say I've
> installed FreeBSD x.y on just about every flavor of Dell hardware
> without much trouble, so it should work for you. Disclaimer: the
> Dimension line is hig
Perry Hutchison wrote:
Do you get the FreeBSD boot menu ?
No. The BIOS clears the screen and loads the boot sector, then nothing.
I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, but I can say I've
installed FreeBSD x.y on just about every flavor of Dell hardware
without much trouble, so it shoul
> Do you get the FreeBSD boot menu ?
>
> Pramod Venugopal
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No. The BIOS clears the screen and loads the boot sector, then nothing.
> On Aug 14, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Perry Hutchison wrote:
>
> > I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a Dell Pentium III, and I must have
> > done some
Do you get the FreeBSD boot menu ?
Pramod Venugopal
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Aug 14, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Perry Hutchison wrote:
I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a Dell Pentium III, and I must have
done something wrong -- or missed a step -- somewhere along the way.
When trying to boot, I do not
I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a Dell Pentium III, and I must have
done something wrong -- or missed a step -- somewhere along the way.
When trying to boot, I do not get even as far as the situation
described in sec. 4.2.5 of the installation instructions. The system
hangs, with a completely
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