Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:45:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Brian D. Woodruff" <wood@eris.quintessential.com>, "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1 UNstable Message-ID: <19990329114522.W413@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990328163845.008d02b0@freeq.com>; from Brian D. Woodruff on Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 04:38:45PM -0600 References: <3.0.6.32.19990327211654.008b91f0@freeq.com> <199903282155.PAA26891@iaces.com> <3.0.6.32.19990328163845.008d02b0@freeq.com>
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On Sunday, 28 March 1999 at 16:38:45 -0600, Brian D. Woodruff wrote: > At 03:55 PM 3/28/99 -0600, you wrote: >>>> - Did you install new boot blocks? >>> >>> yup. "dangerously dedicated" FreeBSD ones, no boot manager, cos we *LIKE* >>> being dangerously dedicated. >>> >>>> - Did you build your own kernel? >> >> I've found that dangerously dedicated fails much more often than just >> making a FBSD (165) slice, even when it's the whole disk. You'll often >> run into geometry problems this way. Which, btw, I suspect in this case. > > "dangerously dedicated" *IS* a 165 FreeBSD slice, so called because you > can't share it with another operating system, and no, that was not the > problem. Well, no, "dangerously dedicated" refers to the complete drive layout, not the slice. The important thing is that it fakes a partition table in the first block of the file system (the PDP-11 memorial boot block :-) > THIS was the problem ... > > If you want to get 3.1-RELEASE or 3.1-STABLE (which is currently a link > back to 3.1-RELEASE), you MUST use the floppy disks for 3.1-RELEASE, > because the install program puts its own kernel loader on the hard disk, > regardless whether it is appropriate for the kernel it is installing. The > resultant error message is "invalid format!" if you use the wrong loader. > This also happens if you try to upgrade using /stand/systinstall on any > previous version of FreeBSD, including 3.0! This, on the other hand, is useful information. > - please see my lengthy post on the list for details. I didn't. When did you send it? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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