Re: Is it my imagination?

[Rukh <openbsd@rukh.net>]

I've been having a similar problem with cdrom installs on my Acer Extensa
503T noteboook computer. The bootloader comes up, it tries to boot /bsd on
the correct fake drive (an ls shows that bsd does exist), and I get the
"Inappropriate file type or format" message and then it tries to load
/obsd etc but reports file not found of course.
I tested this with a snapshot from May 17th, and a snapshot from just
after the first post-ELF change in April. I also tested it with the 3.1
and 3.0 releases (they give a slightly different error message but
otherwise the same thing).

However the cdroms do boot fine on my desktop machines, and a floppy
boot on the notebook using floppy33.fs from the snapshots also boots (though it
sometimes hangs after the swapgeneric line in the boot process). The
Windows 2000 cdrom boots the notebook fine as does the Mandrake 9 cdrom.

-- Rukh

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

> Issue #1:
> 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.