John Leamon wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody:
> I'm the new owner of a Dec3100, and a newcomer to Unix.  I recently
> attempted to upgrade the 3100 from 1.3 Beta to 1.3.2, following the
> intsructions posted in  the NetBSD FAQ to the letter.  All seemed well
> until I rebooted, and got a Bad magic  response.

  It's possible that you copied the ecoff-format kernel into the root
partition.  AFAIK the boot blocks can only handle a.out-format kernels (at
least that's what I always use).

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