Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:06:45 -0600 From: Programmer In Training <pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Failed to Load Kernel Message-ID: <4B43A9E5.6000506@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> In-Reply-To: <4B435791.3020005@daleco.biz> References: <4B42EA80.70005@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <4B435791.3020005@daleco.biz>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig192B7413F67C0DDF0824B63E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 1/5/2010 9:15 AM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Programmer In Training wrote: >=20 > Hello, P I T (Joseph?), Joseph is fine. (: >=20 > I'm rather astounded that no one has responded to your > email as of yet. IANAE, but here goes: I'm used to it. > <snipped the part about checksums, per your later post> >=20 >> The message I'm getting (wish I could just screen cap and put it up on= >> the web): >> >> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 >> (root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu, Sat Nov 21 14:05:36 UTC 2009) >> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf >> /boot/kernel/kernel text=3D0x88d680 >> readin failed >=20 > Could that be "readln"? Been too long since I saw it. > The typo below makes me assume you're typing from the > view on the the monitor. Bad news is, ev'ry time I've You assume correctly > seen this, it's because of bad media. I've not seen it Would an md5 check of the files on their yield any clues as to if the media itself is bad? > for years, though, and then, it was always on floppy > installs, which, I think, are the posterboy for "bad media" > on Google or Wikipedia or summat. It could be an l, I just assumed a capital "I", I imagine. >=20 >> elf32_loadimage: read failed >> Unable to lad a kernel! >> / >> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. >> Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... >> can't load 'kernel' >> >> As far as I can tell, the cd burned fine (I did the burn on a Toshiba >> notebook running Vista, was able to browse the folders just fine, >> everything looked in order). >=20 > I'm guessing there's some issue we're both unaware of. Perhaps > someone with a better grok on the situation will post. >=20 >> Do I need to use the bootonly.iso as well? What am I missing here? I >> know my drive that I'm booting from is in perfect working order (DVD >> Super Multi-Format DVD+/-R(W), HP, less then a year old with no proble= ms >> prior). >=20 > You could try the bootonly,iso, but the disc you are using does > the same thing, and more. Bootonly is just the installer program, > and is intended to be used when you want to installer over the network,= > like in the old floppy days. Disc1 should have the installer and > all the necessary "chunks" to get a working environment without > a network connection. >=20 >> All the hardware up to this point appears to be detected just fine. >=20 > That's good to hear. As I mentioned, hopefully someone else > will have a better clue on this, as I've not had the problem > for years. I've also not burned a CD for FreeBSD on Windows > *ever*, so I'm thinking it could be related to that, somehow This won't be the first time I've had bad media issues. If that's the case, reburning it from a disc from the same stack probably won't yield different results (and I'm not insane). I hate to burn it with one of my light scribe dvd-r's (the only ones I have at the moment) if it will give me the same problem, though. > or other, despite the fact that you can "see" everything. But > then again, maybe I just don't trust Windows programs ;-) You and me both! --=20 PIT --------------enig192B7413F67C0DDF0824B63E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLQ6nrAAoJEENZQ8DH7rW0XqQIAKWSO2tnk7t7W3fsIRLOqTFa GY3kxLMe2nB/eAX+8laXro1HARA0AzTJ/zloBr0A77kw3jsYLk8IEX9n6dPllt94 P8opvvRg4GhPfbbf9rwQHxGUrko7MTep7BJOYBx/kLIysLQ3xNgJb+BxX4R1J7kl S77vWzTAsX3hw7uIE9LTU3OW3nwlRHPGwE+glGuRjTuAzCWwi2G9gQ9gEofPnfYO qjuG7k5YafvbhcaHkTOEAa3NGTPoj0snKdpqJOUs0DI03KCZ5GxZebvOOxDC5gcQ JybUzjPCnQvy7P6ijgBAa1ioVjN4LwBAFbRG/mEG5VOGIxWLthsYC/XXPTQyFPg= =0+ga -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig192B7413F67C0DDF0824B63E--
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