From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 5 1:46:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailgrd.orion.no (postkontor.orion.no [194.143.1.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E23B214FBA for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 01:45:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from raymond@orion.no) Received: from postkontor.orion.no (unverified [62.92.20.132]) by mailgrd.orion.no (Integralis SMTPRS 2.04) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 05 May 1999 10:45:57 +0200 Received: from foobar.orion.no by postkontor.orion.no with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1460.8) id J865M4P8; Wed, 5 May 1999 10:45:32 +0200 X-Mailer: 21.2 "Clio" XEmacs Lucid (beta12) (via feedmail 8 I); VM 6.67 under 21.2 "Clio" XEmacs Lucid (beta12) From: "Raymond Wiker" MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <14128.1325.388670.229745@foobar.orion.no> Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 10:45:33 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't boot kernel In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Danny writes: > Well, I messed up again. :) I tried to install a Solaris emulator that > involved patching some kernel source files. I re-compiled the kernel, but > it wouldn't boot. When I tried to boot to it, I got: > > elf_loadexec: archsw.readin-failed > > I didn't feel like messing with it, so I booted to kernel.old, CVSup'd to > get the "real" sources, re-compiled it with the good ol' 3.1-STABLE source > with no patches, and I got the same thing. Just to be safe, I tried it > one more time. Nothing. Another "me-too" from me - I think this is a new personal best(?) for me... My home machine shows the same symptoms. One of my work machines showed similar behaviour for a short while, but is now behaving in this respect, at least. My home machine is set up for triple-boot (Win95 for games, FreeBSD-3.1 as my preferred platform, RedHat Linux 5.2 for looking at a specific product that doesn't work under Linux). It has been upgraded from 2.2.2 via 2.2.5 and 2.2.6, 2.2.8 and now 3.1-RELEASE. I don't know if this is significant; it could possibly be some old executables that interfere. The problem showed at about the same time that I installed 31upgrade.tgz (neccessary for ports-stable). I saw that this upgrade included an updated ld-elf.so.1, so I replaced this with the original version. This didn't work... My next try will be to deinstall egcs-1.1.2 and see if that helps. Then again, maybe I should try nuking the entire kernel source tree and try again with a fresh copy... What's the recipe for building a debug kernel, by the way? Is it sufficient to give the "-g" flag to config? //Raymond. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message