From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 11 0:56: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A982414CEA for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:56:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id IAA05898; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 08:52:44 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id JAA08703; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:50:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA10193; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:42:43 +0200 (MEST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id JAA15648; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:47:35 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <3760C06C.8B29EB47@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:53:16 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: Alcatel CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: reich@ntemail.internetcds.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel loading error mesasge References: <518AAFCF1E9AD211BCEA00A0241A91B7062566@ntemail.internetcds.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG reich@ntemail.internetcds.com wrote: > > Can anyone tell me what this means, and more importantly, how to fix it? > > After a pretty severe crash, I rebooted to find my kernel unloadable. > Not just the normal kernel, but kernel.old, .prev, and .GENERIC. > With some fixit disk fun, I was able to find a bootable kernel, and I am > currently making world up to 3.1 stable. > (Was at 3.0 stable.) > > The error message was during the bootloader, as it sucked in the kernel: > > "elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed > input/output error" This may be caused by the old bootloader (or the new ?) when it tries to load a kernel in the "other" format (the old bootloader loads a.out / the new loads elf) Your machine seems to be badly damaged, the best way would be a complete reinstall (just save your data partition) TfH > > What could have possibly caused this? > Ideas/suggestions are appreciated, as I am crippled without this machine. > :) > > Mahlon > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Thierry Herbelot Phone : (+33) 1 46 52 47 23 Home Page : http://perso.cybercable.fr/herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message