Person new to FreeBSD needs help...

[Vulpes Velox]

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 14:57:12 -0600
Jeff Erickson <jperickson at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a one hard drive system, and it is a single boot system. I
> can't say what the exact message is, because I replaced the "broken"
> FreeBSD with Debian (which was what was on it before) until I figure
> out what is going wrong, but it wasn't far from "unable to load
> kernel, trying kernel.old... unable to load kernel.old" and then it
> went to the "ok" prompt of what I am assuming to be the bootloader
> that FreeBSD put on.

For some reason your install failed... what hardware and version?

Last time I've seen something like that it was a bad CD drive.