Subject: Re: post-upgrade booting questions
To: Mark Andres <mark@giganet.net>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/17/1998 16:00:46
Mark Andres wrote:
> 
> Hi Sean,
> 
> On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote:
> 
> > Also, even before I upgraded, back when I was using 1.3_alpha, I would 
> > get (and I still get):
> > 
> > savecore: /netbsd: kvm_dump_mkheader: Read: Invalid argument
> > Jan 17 18:45:56 hussar savecore: /netbsd: kvm_dump_mkheader: Read: 
> > Invalid argument
> > 
> > What does this mean and how can I make it go away?
> 
> I alos get this on my Centris 650 but *not* on my IIcx. As Colin points
> out, the savecore program is having a problem reading your kernel.

It wasn't me, actually :-)  However, I do have a question....had you
upgraded your binaries and your kernel at the same time?  If your binaries
are out of sync, I'd expect an error like this.

> BTW, my
> kernel is named 'netbsd'. Even though the error message is annoying, it
> does not seem to cause any problems. If you want to stop the error
> message, then you can edit the /etc/rc.conf file and change

Do you still see this error, Mark?

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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