On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 22:26:01 +0100 (MET) 
 Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se> wrote:

 > Either the kernel you tries to boot isn't full size, or you have dug up
 > a very old boot program, or something. The latter seems unlikely.

It turns out to have been a corrupted kernel image.  I found a 1.4.1
SCSI debug kernel, and it's running multi-user now.

BTW, the November snapshot does NOT include kernels suitable for
network booting :-/

 > Where does the '@' comes from?

From the boot program, I guess... *shrug*

 > If you can't find any other error, try to boot a stripped kernel just
 > to get going...

Well, I'm building a -current kernel now.  I'll let you know how it
turns out in a couple of days :-)

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>