Re: NetBSD bootloader randomly boots wrong kernel

["Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 04:43:14PM +0000, Sad Clouds wrote:
> 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.

Well, what's actually happening?  There's probably some error message we
need to know about.

        Jonathan Kollasch