From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 18:34:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CC6316A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:34:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shiva.nextrials.com (shiva.nextrials.com [64.81.74.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC2043D41 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:34:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dannyman@toldme.com) Received: from [192.168.1.102] (mito.sr.nextrials.com [192.168.1.102]) by shiva.nextrials.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 662523C2832; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:33:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <424AF110.9090105@toldme.com> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:33:52 -0800 From: Danny Howard User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050328) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stheg olloydson References: <20050323061905.27700.qmail@web53904.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050323061905.27700.qmail@web53904.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: khaled.abu@gmail.com Subject: Re: cannot boot 5.3 after power failure - major bug? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:34:03 -0000 stheg olloydson wrote: > >Thanks for the reply. I had tried that and kept getting the >"invalid format" error. I am puzzled by the fact that I can get >a directory list, but the boot loader thinks the format is >wrong. Also it seems to be looking in /kernel and not >/boot/kernel/. > stheg, Is this a system that has been upgraded? My guess is that your boot loader was installed or configured for an earlier version of FreeBSD, where /kernel used to be the place to go ... and maybe you just don't reboot all the much, or something got knocked loose in the times before the power outage. At any rate ... check the handbook for how to replace your MBR (typically needed after installing Windows) which might do the trick. Otherwise, it is maybe missing some crucial hint from a file that got clobbered from the /boot or /kernel directories or something? I'd like to think that that will get fixed when you upgrade to 5.4. :) (If you really want to know the answer, find a good resource on FreeBSD bootstrap process. There have been changes these past few years, so I'm pretty sure people have been writing about this ...) Best Wishes, -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/