Hi all,

After trying out BeleniX on the livecd I decided to try installing it
to my pc. The installer seemed to work fine, but when I rebooted after
it completed I found myself unable to boot. Grub reported that the
entries in the menu.lst file were wrong and suggested alternative
entries, which I tried and found also failed. I the searched this
group's archives and the bug tracking system on the BeleniX website
and found alternative menu.lst entries to try. Again, this didn't
work, but I was not expecting them to as I saw that even after
re-installing I had no kernel in the /platform/i86pc/kernel location
and no boot_archive there either, (in fact no kernel directory there
as well).

The only 'unix' kernel I could find was in /boot/platform/i86pc/kernel
so I tried copying it into the location in the menu.lst file and using
bootadm to create a boot_archive once that was done. The were a few
error messages about AMD64 cpu instructions, but as I have an Intel P4
1.6Ghz cpu I ignored those and rebooted again. It again failed to
boot, but the trace it printed to the screen was:

krtld: error during initial load/link phase
Unexpected trap
instruction pointer 0x10
error code, optional 0xc0cc12
code segment 0x896
flags register 0xc00070
Attempting stack backtrace:
Stack traceback:
instruction pointer 0xfe84791d
error code, optional 0x0
code segment 0x10
flags register 0x10046
Attempting stack backtrace:
Stack traceback:
 mutex_vector_enter+35(0xfe84791d,0x10,0x10046,0x0,0xc0cb2c,0x0)
unexpected trap in early boot

I realised that manually moving the kernel as I did was probably not
going to work, but by that point I had run out of any other
suggestions that I could find by searching.

I've backed out the changes I made, and will re-install if needed, but
is there anything you could suggest to help me get my system to boot?

Many thanks,
Jim.

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