Which is why I like to download important stuff directly to VM using either FTP or Charlotte. Saves a whole lot of aggravation.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Alan Altmark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 8:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > 01: 00 > > On Wednesday, 04/24/2002 at 07:24 ZE2, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > [snip] > > Make sure to ftp in binary by hand and not let Netscape do > > it for you. We've found that depending on the configuration > > of your PC the browse can negotiate with the web server to > > corrupt your file while downloading ;-) > > We have found that web browsers often request ASCII transmission of > everything by default, on the erroneous assumption that it means the same > thing as binary (Everything In The Universe uses the same encoding as > Windows, right?). That means that LF gets translated to CRLF, messing up > any offsets into the binary image. And, of course, the LF wasn't *really* > an LF, it was compiled/compressed code or data! > > Alan Altmark > Sr. Software Engineer > IBM z/VM Development
