From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 28 14:39:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eris.quintessential.com (ns1.quintessential.com [209.98.180.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E0F614D68 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 14:39:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wood@eris.quintessential.com) Received: from none.visi.com (freeq-host33.dsl.visi.com [209.98.235.33]) by eris.quintessential.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA00818; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 16:41:17 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990328163845.008d02b0@freeq.com> X-Sender: wood@freeq.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 16:38:45 -0600 To: "Paul T. Root" From: "Brian D. Woodruff" Subject: Re: 3.1 UNstable Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199903282155.PAA26891@iaces.com> References: <3.0.6.32.19990327211654.008b91f0@freeq.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "dangerously dedicated" *IS* a 165 FreeBSD slice, so called because you can't share it with another operating system, and no, that was not the problem. THIS was the problem ... If you want to get 3.1-RELEASE or 3.1-STABLE (which is currently a link back to 3.1-RELEASE), you MUST use the floppy disks for 3.1-RELEASE, because the install program puts its own kernel loader on the hard disk, regardless whether it is appropriate for the kernel it is installing. The resultant error message is "invalid format!" if you use the wrong loader. This also happens if you try to upgrade using /stand/systinstall on any previous version of FreeBSD, including 3.0! - please see my lengthy post on the list for details. BDW At 03:55 PM 3/28/99 -0600, you wrote: >> >- Did you install new boot blocks? >> >> yup. "dangerously dedicated" FreeBSD ones, no boot manager, cos we *LIKE* >> being dangerously dedicated. >> >> >- Did you build your own kernel? > >I've found that dangerously dedicated fails much more often than just >making a FBSD (165) slice, even when it's the whole disk. You'll often >run into geometry problems this way. Which, btw, I suspect in this case. > > > >-- >The car ran out of gas. >--from "Excuses, Excuses" *the* compendium of excuses by Leigh W. Rutledge > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message