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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 15:05:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Jay Richmond <jayrich@RoseVC.Rose-Hulman.Edu>
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Subject: Re: booting new kernel... problems
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On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Jay Richmond wrote:

> I built a new 2.2-stable kernel as of today and everything compiled
> fine... Then when I tried to reboot, I got the following messages: 
> 
> Boot:
> 
> dosdev= 80, biosdrive = 0, unit = 0, maj = 4
> 
> Invalid format!
> 
> after that it goes in a countinuous loop... have I done something wrong
> here? or is there something I should be doing?  i can boot the old
> kernel just fine by using /kernel.old iused the same config file that i
> used for the old kernel (which was also a recent 2.2-stable kernel). 

Did you run `make install' to copy the kernel over?

You might mention when you grabbed the sources last.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major