From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 5 14:57:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C513D1555C for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 14:57:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13439; Wed, 5 May 1999 14:57:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 14:57:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Wilson Tam Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: archsw.readin failed at boot In-Reply-To: <372F9DA4.66065087@singnet.com.sg> 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 Wed, 5 May 1999, Wilson Tam wrote: > I have recently cvsup the stable source (RELENG_3) to my disk. When I > reboot after I recompile a new kernel (configure, make depend, make, > make install), I get an error from the boot loader: > > elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed. > > then the new kernel refused to boot. Your old kernel is probably in kernel.old. Try rebuilding and reinstalling the boot blocks in /sys/boot/. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message