From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 25 8:41:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from diamant.cip.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (diamant.cip.informatik.uni-muenchen.de [141.84.220.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D74814E84 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 08:41:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuce@informatik.uni-muenchen.de) Received: (qmail 7544 invoked by uid 7770); 25 Nov 1999 16:41:32 -0000 Received: from po.cip.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (root@141.84.220.181) by diamant.cip.informatik.uni-muenchen.de with SMTP; 25 Nov 1999 16:41:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (neuce@localhost) by po.cip.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA23039 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 17:41:32 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: po.cip.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: neuce owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 17:41:32 +0100 (CET) From: Cecile To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3.3RELEASE - "Invalid Format" for kernel 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 hi, i am currently trying to update a PII-computer from 3.0 RELEASE to 3.3 RELEASE. make buildworld and make installworld worked (with a minor problem trying to install a manpage that obviously wasn't there) but having forgotten nik clayton's "making the world" tutorial and having been without internet connection at the time of the installation, i didn't cleanly update /etc and /dev then. i compiled and installed a new kernel without problems, but the machine won't boot it, claiming there is an "Invalid format!". i can still boot the old 3.0 kernel and run the machine with it. now that i have finished all the other tasks mentioned in the tutorial, i'd like to install the new kernel - but the machine beeing networked and curently an hour to drive from here, i don't want it to hang up while trying to boot the new kernel. were the problems i encountered with the 3.3 kernel due to my lack of precision making the world, or are there other pitfalls i should be aware of? thank you! cecile -- GameCat neuce@informatik.uni-muenchen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message