From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 27 20:21:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [12.9.219.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AE341525B for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:21:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from HARLIE.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [12.9.219.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA98540; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:21:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:21:11 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: Brian Woodruff Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1 UNstable In-Reply-To: <36FD7335.96FB761D@freeq.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, 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. > > 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. I found that 3.1-RELEASE was very sensitive to floppy disk quality. I formatted the disks on Win95 with verify on, and threw out any disk with even a single bad sector, and that got it to work. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message