From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 26 6: 2:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from roo.stockholm.yahoo.com (roo.stockholm.yahoo.com [195.67.32.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FB4D14F40 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 06:01:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from felipe@se.yahoo-inc.com) Received: from se.yahoo-inc.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by roo.stockholm.yahoo.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA00310; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:59:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from felipe@se.yahoo-inc.com) Message-ID: <36D6A8D3.77FB3385@se.yahoo-inc.com> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:59:47 +0100 From: Felipe Garcia Organization: Yahoo! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Chris D. Faehl" Cc: Tom Ishikawa , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem w/ 3.1-STABLE/RELEASE References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris D. Faehl wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I recently installed 3.1-STABLE and have a problem. > > My PC does not boot any more. It's said 'invalid format' and repeats > > 'boot.help' file. I tried 3.1-RELEASE, 3.0-19990209-STABLE, > > and 4.0-19990223-SNAP and those gives me the same error. > > > > my system is P-II 450, GA-6BXC motherboard. > > > > any hints or suggestions? > > disklabel -B da0 > ^^^ tried this but I still get invaild format. tried building /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot and oing disklabel -B -b boot1 -s boot2 da0 in /usr/mdec, this puts the old loader in.... /felipe > or whatever your root disk is. The boot loader you've got on your > disk right now can't deal with ELF kernels. > > > > > BTW, it works w/ 2.2.8-RELEASE. > > > > thanx > > -tishi > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chris Faehl | Email: cfaehl@cs.unm.edu > The University of New Mexico | URL: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~cfaehl > Computer Science Dept., Rm. FEC 313 | Phone: 505/277-3016 > Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA | FAX: 505/277-6927 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Felipe Garcia felipe@se.yahoo-inc.com +46 8 412 69 84 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message