> Given that others report problems with the miniroot in this snapshot,
> and given the a.out->elf hassel, perhaps some kind soul could build a
> new miniroot?

There's nothing wrong with the miniroot image, but it may not have
survived the transfer to disk. If you have used a pipe to decompress
the image and write to disk using dd(1), the blocking factor
may have sliced the image.

Try e.g.:

	gzip -d .. | dd bs=4k of=...

(the installation notes now recommend this block size)

-pk