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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:26:03 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andrew <acs@fl.net.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   archsw.readin failed
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003292008240.61940-100000@jander.fl.net.au>

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Hi,

As people may know from my previous posts I've had a HD die. I got a new
one and reinstalled everything. It boots one machine fine. Problem is that
it wont boot the machine it is destined for.
The boot dies with:

archsw.readin

Looking through the archives people have said it is either the boot blocks
or the loader. I had an old drive placed in the machine
(2.2-970819-RELENG) so I could mount the new drive. I mounted it and ran

disklabel -B -b /mnt/root/boot/boot1 -s /mnt/root/boot/boot2 wd1

an ls -l in /mnt/root (the root partition of the  new drive) /boot:

-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel     512 Mar 22 08:17 boot0
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel     512 Mar 22 08:17 boot1
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    7680 Mar 22 08:17 boot2

<snip>

-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  131072 Mar 22 08:17 loader

and ls -l /mnt/root/kernel.GENERIC

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2346971 Mar 22 22:59 /mnt/root/kernel.GENERIC

(I'm trying to boot using GENERIC).

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Andrew



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