Re: Is it my imagination?

[openbsd@mail.commercedata.com]

Thanks for your reply, Ted.

> 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.

Well, I can accept that, but I don't believe I did.
  
> > 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.

Okay, this sounds like a plausible explanation, EXCEPT that I asked two friends
to download the CD33.iso from the 3.3 directory and do an ftp build, and they
both got the same results.  One tried it again a week later and had success.
So did the ELF kernel accidentally get tucked into the FTP release version,
and then get replaced with the a.out version?

Dave Klingler