Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 15:38:37 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr> To: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG.'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help Newbie with install Nightmare!!! Message-ID: <3736E15D.82FCDB75@telspace.alcatel.fr> References: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFF60387F@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu>
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"Person, Roderick" wrote: > > To put along story short, on saturday I had a full function Linux system. > Monday I have a win 95 system. > > Ok, I have been trying to install FreeBSD. I finally got it to write to my > drive and install /bin. But, the problem is when I boot I get a invalid > format error? > > My drives are : > > on first controller disk 1 is a 1.2 GB DOS/Win 95 only. > on first controller disk 2 is 6.0 GB parition > FreeBSD 1GB > Linux 2 GB > Linux 2 GB > FreeBSD 1.1GB Hello - Why do you have two FDISK partitions for FreeBSD ? (one is enough and you can slice it to get the "normal" /, swap and /usr Unix partitions) - 1 GB of disk is sufficient for a "normal" installation of FreeBSD > > At boot I have tried, 1:wd(1,a)kernel > 1:wd(2,a)kernel > and they give me the invalid format error. > > Now when I type 1:wd(2,b)kernel (which I believe is correct for my sytem) > > I see the hash (\) start to spin, then the system locks. - the binary format of the kernel has changed from a.out (2.x and 3.0) to elf (in 3.1) : this explain why the boot loader installed from the 2.2.8 floppies can't boot your 3.1-S kernel : you MUST use a coherent set of install media (use the floppies of the Stable snapshot you have tried to install). > > Now, I did use the 2.2.8 boot floppy to install the 3.1 stable bin. I could > not get the 3.1 kern and MFS floppies to write to the disk, the could not > detect read my DOS part where I had /Freebsd/bin and /freebsd/compat22 lokk at the errata files on the freebsd site (www or ftp) - there is a bug notice about sysinstall not being programmed to look in c:\freebsd\bin - this was corrected in subsequent -Stable snapshots. > > Can someone help > > Rod... > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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