On 13-Oct-2001 UberTechnoid@Home.com wrote:
> ok, those digits I mentioned are just a date code as to when the file was
> last modified or maybe a creation date.  I doubt it has anything to do
> with my problem.
> 
> If not that, then WHAT?  Its enough to piss off  a saint and there is no
> documentation regarding this problem on the web.  I've hit Deja, Google,
> etc and come across this error but not in the context I'm experiencing it
> in.

I suspect that it might have something with the boot loader's knowledge
what inode to boot from being hardcoded, if it is, in fact the case. Therefore,
the following install-kernel target makes sense (pulled from the
compile/<YOUR-KERNEL>/Makefile):

install-kernel-${MACHINE_NAME}:
        rm -f /onetbsd
        ln /netbsd /onetbsd
        cp netbsd /nnetbsd
        mv /nnetbsd /netbsd

It seems like a pretty bizarre way of installing a kernel, but it makes sense
if the inode # has to be preserved across kernel installs. That could be your
problem.

- Julian

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