From owner-freebsd-small Mon May 3 13:47:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from freja.webgiro.com (freja.webgiro.com [212.209.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A037014C1C for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 13:47:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 01CED18D0; Mon, 3 May 1999 22:48:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00EF449DA; Mon, 3 May 1999 22:48:15 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 22:48:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Hoss Firooznia Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD boot error: can't load kernel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 May 1999, Hoss Firooznia wrote: > Hi folks, > > > Loading kernel. Please wait... > /kernel text=0xc379c > elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed > can't load 'kernel' > Error booting > > This happens with both a modified 'net' configuration as well as with the > stock 'router' configuration. The boot blocks and boot loader seem to work > as usual (I get the usual loader messages, the BootFORTH menu, etc.) but > the boot loader apparently can't read in the kernel properly. > > I've tried multiple machines and multiple disks, but the problem remains - > so presumably this isn't simply a hardware read error. Does the problem > sound familiar to anyone? Am I (most likely) missing something obvious? Well, it looks familiar to me - more or less it means "I can't read this sector from the media, help!", and I usually was able to get rid of it with a new floppy... but in your case, if you already tried it, well... Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message