Re: NetBSD bootloader randomly boots wrong kernel

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%googlemail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:11:52 +0100
Jean-Yves Migeon <jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost> wrote:

> On 27.12.2010 13:32, Sad Clouds wrote:
> > This is /netbsd kernel:
> > NetBSD 5.1_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Mon Nov 29 19:52:01 GMT 2010
> > 
> > This is /netbsd.old kernel
> > NetBSD 5.1 (GENERIC) #2: Fri Nov 19 11:28:39 UTC 2010
> > 
> > Can anyone explain why my bootloader does this??
> 
> boot(8):
> 
>       The default filename is netbsd; if the boot loader fails to
>       successfully open that image, it then tries netbsd.gz (expected
>       to be a kernel image compressed by gzip), followed by
>       netbsd.old, netbsd.old.gz, onetbsd, and finally onetbsd.gz.
>       Alternate system images can be loaded by just specifying the
>       name of the image.

Yeah I'm aware of that, however if you have /netbsd and /netbsd.old, the 
bootloader should always load /netbsd. What I have been observing is bootloader 
loading /netbsd one time, then /netbsd.old another time, and so on. It seems 
like it randomly picks /netbsd or /netbsd.old and loads it. This should not 
happen.