Re: Is it my imagination?

[Ted Unangst <tedu@stanford.edu>]

On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 openbsd@mail.commercedata.com wrote:

> About two weeks ago (mid-May) I decided to build another NAT/firewall machine
> for a friend's office.  I used my FTP-snapshot boot CD (since it already
> pointed to 3.3) and went through the build process quickly on a machine that
> had been running 2.8.  Upon reboot the boot loader told me "Inappropriate
> file type or format" when it went to load the kernel.

bad bad bad.  mixing snapshots and releases is not good.

> A.  FTP builds failed on reboot with "Inappropriate file type or format" when
> the boot loader tried to load the stock kernel, on multiple i386 platforms.
> B.  Using the older kernel solved the problem instantly.

C.  you mixed ELF and a.out bootloader and kernel, and that is not
supported.


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