Impossible install of 5.4

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon May 16 11:37:25 PDT 2005


On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 05:26:42PM +0200, Olivier Gautherot wrote:
> Hi folks!
> 
> I've tried to install 5.4 but can't boot the disk. I see a FreeBSD prompt (the 
> master boot selector being a Linux version of grub) but it complains about a 
> missing /kernel.

I guess you have some remnants of 4.x on this machine: 5.x looks for
/boot/kernel/kernel, not /kernel.  Make sure your loader and boot
blocks are up-to-date.

Kris
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