From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 20 8:59:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu (jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3015714D7D for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 08:59:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@miami.edu) Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu ("port 2810"@jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by jaguar.ir.miami.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #40232) with ESMTP id <0FJW007N3SETC8@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:59:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:59:17 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" Subject: Re: "Invalid format" on boot after upgrade from 2.2CAM to 3.3 In-reply-to: <380D8DB5.E30F0176@elok.com> To: Neil Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is because the 2.2 kernel was in a.out format, and the 3.3 kernel is in ELF format. You need to reinstall the boot manager. You can either write one to the disk from sysinstall, or...never mind, you really only have that option if you can't boot. Just boot up off floppies or CD, and choose Configure. Then select Fdisk. Hit 'W' on the disk you want, and select to reinstall the boot manager (or do a standard). That should work for you. Joe Clarke On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Neil Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I just upgraded a 2.2CAM system to 3.3 but now when it boots, just after > the "boot:" prompt it comes back with "Invalid format" and cycles round > again. I can boot from the kernel.prev, but then cannot mount anything > or do anything useful because I get loads of invalid system calls. Am I > missing some package or other? > > Can anyone suggest things I can try? > > Thanks, > > Neil. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message