5.1 Kernel panic on install

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Kevin Orviss" <kjorviss at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> I have looked through the FreeBSD handbook, but I just do not have enough
> experience with FreeBSD to make sense of it. Can anyone give any help?

Well, that brings up the question of why you're running 5.x to begin
with.  Did you not read 
 http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html
or do you need 5.1 for some particular reason?

If the former, maybe you should try 4.9.
If the latter, maybe you need to try -CURRENT, with all of the duties
and obligations pertaining thereto.