On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Michael Wolfson wrote:

> OK, so I tried a booting a variety of things from my OF 3.0 PowerBook.  I
> got various errors in the process.  I know these kernels are valid ELF and
> can at least partially boot my 7500.  Why can't OF 3.0 load them properly?
> Can someone explain to me what the error messages mean?
> 
> For instance:
> <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5_ALPHA2/macppc/installation/floppy/bo
> ot.fs>
> I extracted the kernel from this one and when I try "boot hd:netbsd", I get:
> unrecognized Client Program

Others have touched on this, but these problems are because the files in
question are really gziped ELF files, and OF doesn't know how to decode
that.

Take care,

Bill