From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 10 6:38:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17E3215E0A for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 06:38:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id OAA28172; Mon, 10 May 1999 14:34:23 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id PAA26007; Mon, 10 May 1999 15:33:34 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA28139; Mon, 10 May 1999 15:30:20 +0200 (MEST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06854; Mon, 10 May 1999 15:32:53 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <3736E15D.82FCDB75@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 15:38:37 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: Alcatel CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Person, Roderick" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG.'" Subject: Re: Help Newbie with install Nightmare!!! References: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFF60387F@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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