Subject: Re: me box freezes solider'n the iceman
To: Hume Smith <hclsmith@glinx.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/16/1999 10:57:26
hclsmith@glinx.com (Hume Smith) writes:
> Hmm... when the kernel first starts, it makes some complaint about a bad =
> ELF symbol table, using a.out instead. It doesn't show up in dmesg, so =
> i'm not exactly about it. That's the generic 1.4/i386 kernel straight off =
> the FTP site; maybe it acquired a glitch somewhere along the line.
>
> i'll fetch a new copy and compare it...
>
> Could this be related?
Probably not; the 1.4 kernel is a.out, and isn't expected to have an
ELF symbol table.
That something (the kernel or the boot blocks) complains about that is
probably a bug, more than anything else.
cgd
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