From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 10 14:50:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A81431065672 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:50:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CCFF8FC17 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:50:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 14041 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2009 14:49:21 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Jan 2009 14:49:20 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B707550842; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:49:17 -0500 (EST) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 39C331CD35; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:49:17 -0500 (EST) To: shilp.kamal@yahoo.com References: <468090.72533.qm@web45413.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:49:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <468090.72533.qm@web45413.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> (Kamlesh Patel's message of "Fri\, 9 Jan 2009 00\:05\:47 -0800 \(PST\)") Message-ID: <44wsd32p3m.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:50:13 -0000 Kamlesh Patel writes: > Hi there, > > I changed the following file of FreeBSD 7.0: > sys/boot/forth/beastie.4th > > variable rebootkey > variable mykey (added line) > > I built and installed kernel, then i reboot the system, it gives me the following error: > > --------------------------------------------------- > " panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x6e104 from > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/module.c:959 > > --> Press a key on the console to reboot <-- " > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > How do i recover the system from this error. I can't reload the loader.old > > Could anyone please help me? Can you boot from a CD to fix things up? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/