Re: Error Loading Kernel
Re: Error Loading Kernel
- Subject: Re: Error Loading Kernel
- From: Duane Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:45:32 -0700
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A bit of a follow up.
Using otool -h -arch all, I have learned that 0xfeedfacf is the magic
number for x86_64 architectures. I am of course booting Snow Leoapard.
Now I find the message all the more confusing.
On Sep 22, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Duane Murphy wrote:
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> I'm trying to work out what files have been corrupted to cause the
> error message at boot time:
>
> ...Mach-O file has bad magic number 0xfeedfacf
> Error loading kernel 'mach_kernel' (0x1)
>
> That's the message I get when booting from a newer MacBook Pro. On
> an older Mac Pro, there is an error message and a reboot so I am
> unable to read the error message as it flashes by. I do see the Mac
> Pro showing more than one row of dots as it is loading. (I've always
> assumed that each dot is a kext,)
>
> The corruption was caused by a disk driver that I am working on. I'd
> like to work out what the corruption is in order to diagnose the
> problem.
>
> Is there some way of determining which file has been corrupted?
>
> I replaced the mach_kernel file already so that's not it.
>
> I suspect that it's one of the kext. But I'm not sure how to
> determine if it is corrupted or which one is corrupted. I tried
> running "otool -h" on all of the files in MacOS directories, but
> they all seem to check out with a proper 0xfeedface.
>
> Is there some other options or some other tools that can help?
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> ...Duane
>
>
> * Duane Murphy <email@hidden>
> * 0x10E2BD82(L)
>
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