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When booting, the message “no a.out magic” appears and halts the boot. Why?

April 26, 2017appears boot booting halts message

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When booting, the message “no a.out magic” appears and halts the boot. Why?

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On systems that are set up to use PROLL, you will see this message when attempting to boot up a kernel image that is not in AOUT format. Be sure to run elftoaout on your kernel image, as described in the “Kernel Build” chapter.