From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 27 16:18:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A9E151DE for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 16:18:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA16607; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 09:48:01 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA57015; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 09:48:00 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990328094800.L53452@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 09:48:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brian Woodruff , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1 UNstable References: <36FD7335.96FB761D@freeq.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <36FD7335.96FB761D@freeq.com>; from Brian Woodruff on Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 06:09:27PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 27 March 1999 at 18:09:27 -0600, Brian Woodruff wrote: > My business partner just spent three hours trying to install 3.1 STABLE > onto a new system, and always got "bad format" errors (or something > similar) when we tried to load the kernel upon boot. "something similar" isn't similar enough. We need the exact message, along with a lot of other information: - What kind of system is it? - How did you install the software? - Was it an upgrade or a new installation? - If it was an upgrade, what were you upgrading from? - Did you install new boot blocks? - Did you build your own kernel? - What was the exact message you got (yes, this is a repeat) - When did you get it? > When we switched to the 3.0 CD-ROM, the system loaded and booted > fine. In every case, we used the "minimum" configuration. My > partner and I have both performed dozens of successful installations > in the past, both via net and CD. I can only assume that 3.1 STABLE > is not suitable for release. Based on the information, I can only assume that your installation was not suitable for use. > BTW, I cam currently not on this mailing list, so please reply > privately, or tell me where I can find a web archive. Thank you. By convention we reply both to the list and to the submitter (see the .sig below). Please contact me if you don't get this message. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message