Re: PSA: Clock drift and pkgin

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro%orcam.me.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2023, Mouse wrote:

> > > boot netbsd
> [...]
> > open netbsd: No such file or directory
> 
> > and on the boot host:
> 
> > $ ls -laL /scratch/netbsd.vax
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3883124 Feb 14  2020 /scratch/netbsd.vax
> > $ readelf -l /scratch/netbsd.vax
> 
> I note that "netbsd" is not "netbsd.vax".  This seems obvious, but I've
> missed things that obvious often enough myself....

 Thanks for the point, however in this case "netbsd" is the first fallback 
remote filename after "netbsd.vax" has failed to load (the subsequent ones 
are: "netbsd.gz", "netbsd.old", and finally "gennetbsd", at which point if 
still unsuccessful the bootloader gives up and issues a halt; I've omitted 
the rest of the boot log in my message as none of it matters once the read 
of the first file has failed), which is clearly indicated if the file has 
been removed from the server:

>>> boot EZA0

-EZA0
>> NetBSD/vax boot [1.12 (Fri Feb 14 00:06:28 UTC 2020)] <<
>> Press any key to abort autoboot 0
SGEC: Ethernet address 08:00:2b:30:96:d8
Trying BOOTP
Using IP address: x.x.x.x
myip: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (x.x.x.x)
root addr=y.y.y.y path=/scratch
open netbsd.vax: No such file or directory
> boot netbsd
SGEC: Ethernet address 08:00:2b:30:96:d8
open netbsd: No such file or directory
netbsd: boot failed: No such file or directory
> boot netbsd.gz
[...]

  Maciej