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Date:      Sun, 20 Jun 1999 13:39:40 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        Glenn Gebhart <glenn@cs.hmc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem booting FreeBSD 3.2
Message-ID:  <376D518C.10082CFE@3-cities.com>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.9906201301550.5110-100000@turing.cs.hmc.edu>

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Glenn Gebhart wrote:
> 
> Heylo all...
> 
> I just got done installing FreeBSD 3.2 on my system. The installation went
> fine, and the boot screen comes up correctly. I can even use "?" to see
> what files are in /. But when it tries to boot using /kernel it fails with
> the following message:
> 
> Invalid format!
> 
> And then returns directly to the boot screen. Anyone have any ideas what
> is up with this? For reference I used to run FreeBSD 2.2.6 without any
> problems.

Did you boot from the floppies and use sysinstall to do an upgrade. That
writes a 3.2 bootblock onto your HD.

Kent

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