WEC8500/8050 Maintenance Manual
Version 5.1
Samsung Electronics America
page 14 of 87
1.1.4
Booting failure due to damaged kernel image
This occurs if the kernel image on the primary partition of the disk is damaged and cannot
be loaded while the APC is booting.
Symptoms
The ‘system kernel loading fail (status: 2)’ log is displayed during booting and the system
restarts 3 times. Then, the system goes to the shell environment of the boot loader.
##### BOOTING START #####
Looking for valid bootloader image....
(Omitted)
boot partition: 1
Enter password to stop autoboot.
Loading file "/boot/vmlinux.gz" from scsi device 0:1 (sda1)
0 bytes read
Error: Bad gzipped data
argv[2]: coremask=0xff
argv[3]: endbootargs
## No elf image at address 0x20700000
system kernel loading fail (status: 2)
(Omitted - Retry the same process for three times when the board is
reset)
boot partition: 1
Enter password to stop autoboot.
Loading file "/boot/vmlinux.gz" from scsi device 0:1 (sda1)
0 bytes read
Error: Bad gzipped data
argv[2]: coremask=0xff
argv[3]: endbootargs
## No elf image at address 0x20700000
system kernel loading fail (status: 2)
bootoctlinux: fail to boot up linux kernel (rcode: 1)
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Bootloader failed to load kernel and reset the system to recover from
fault.
Check your system non-volatile storage device and package images.
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