From owner-freebsd-small Mon May 3 14:12: 3 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 1E0941535F for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 14:11:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B059C18D0; Mon, 3 May 1999 23:12:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF55449DA; Mon, 3 May 1999 23:12:25 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 23:12:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: "M. L. Dodson" Cc: Hoss Firooznia , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD boot error: can't load kernel In-Reply-To: <199905032058.PAA00419@beowulf.utmb.edu> 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, M. L. Dodson wrote: > Andrzej Bialecki writes: > > 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 > > Hmmmm.... I get that message when multibooting regular FreeBSD > (3.1-stable kernel, but 3.1-release bootblocks) and NT, > using the NT boot loader to load our /boot/loader sequence. > Works fine when /boot.config contains > > 1:da(0,a)/kernel > > so there is nothing wrong with the kernel. I suspect a mismatch > somewhere between the 3.1-release boot stuff (specifically, > /boot/loader) and the 3.1-stable kernel, but I haven't gotten > around to a make world and installation of new bootblocks. You Hmm... Could be also some problem with geometry perhaps.. it's a wild guess, but who knows.. you usually don't have problems with figuring out the geometry of a floppy, whereas with HDDs it's a different story. 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