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From: evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Shoelace problem
Message-ID: <1990Oct24.184312.867@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU>
Date: 24 Oct 90 18:43:12 GMT
References: <1231@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia
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In article <1231@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall) writes:
>When I boot the floppy, Shoelace comes up, and after doing its initialization
>thing, complains that "Text+Data+Symbols does not match file length" for
>the kernel file.  It then proceeds to load image file (and everything runs

Shoelace has a fussy check that the file headers are reasonable. Something
is wrong with the kernel file. A truncated file might only be missing a few
symbols and this would not be noticed by build.
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Bruce Evans		evans@syd.dit.csiro.au