I get this message too, even though all my installation files came from
the 1.4.2 directory. 

//Erik Huizing			

On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Paul Goyette wrote:

> Probably your kernel and userland don't match.  In particular,
> savecore uses libkvm, which has to match the running kernel.
> 
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Erik Winkler wrote:
> 
> > When I boot my custom kernel based on SPOT I get the following error
> > message on boot:
> > 
> > savecore:  /netbsd: kvm_dump_mkheader: Pread: Invalid argument
> > 
> > What does this mean?
> > 
> > Erik