From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 25 9:24:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1158814A23 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 09:23:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.2) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 09:30:10 -0800 Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1162.bossig.com [208.26.241.162]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA17818; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 09:20:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <383D7038.97471089@3-cities.com> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 09:22:00 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cecile Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.3RELEASE - "Invalid Format" for kernel References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cecile wrote: > > 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? It sounds like you forgot about the boot blocks. They also have to be updgraded when major changes occur. Kent > > 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message