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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Glenn Gebhart ,http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~glenn > HMC CS Staff > For PGP public key finger glenn@turing.cs.hmc.edu > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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