Subject: Re: booting cdrom
To: None <port-sgimips@netbsd.org>
From: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 11/16/2001 09:24:35
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Rafal Boni wrote:

> In message <Pine.OSF.4.40.0111160739100.16040-100000@grover.WPI.EDU>, you write
> : 
> 
> -> Is there a way to ensure that an ECOFF kernel was really built?
> 
> Run `file' on the kernel on your tftp server, it should tell you what
> format the file is... (Sorry, don't have my tftp server up at the time
> to check that it works/what is says).

  One interesting thing I noticed:  the magic number in the error message
indicated 0x0162 - which file notes as MIPSLE COFF.  [The original error
message indicated it was ELF.]  The copy of sash I have uses 0x0163 -
which file notes as MIPSEB MIPS-II COFF.

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Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA