From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 20 13:40:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC14C14C23 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 13:40:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1210.bossig.com [208.26.241.210]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05408; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 13:40:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <376D518C.10082CFE@3-cities.com> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 13:39:40 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@3-cities.com Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Glenn Gebhart Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem booting FreeBSD 3.2 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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