Subject: Re: Booter: "Failed to read kernel image header" on custom kernel
To: Space Case <wormey@eskimo.com>
From: Reinier Jonker <rjgjonker@xs4all.nl>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/29/2002 10:18:30
On vrijdag, maart 29, 2002, at 12:51 AM, Space Case wrote:
> On Mar 28, 5:42pm, Reinier Jonker wrote:
>> I've built a custom based on yesterday's -current sources.
>> Unfortunatel,
>> the booter does not accept this kernel as valid. This does not only
>> happen with 2.0.1a1, but also with 2.0.0a10 and 2.0.0a7, always with
>> "Failed to read kernel image header" (or something similar). That leads
>> to the conclusion my kernel is probably faulty :-)
>
> I'm curious -- what do you get when you run `file` on the new kernel?
/netbsd: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, Motorola 68000, version 1 (SYSV),
statically linked, not stripped
> Also, try a kernel from my latest snapshot and see if it works.
I'm currently running a kernel from last week's snapshot (now called
"netbsd.old").
--
Reinier Jonker