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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: At boot: file too big to load
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.220935.12838@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
- References: <1992Nov22.225044.1344@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> <1992Nov23.070212.9393@tfs.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 22:09:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.070212.9393@tfs.com> julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov22.225044.1344@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> serini@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Piero Serini) writes:
- >>Hi.
- >>At the end I succeeded recompiling that damn kernel.
- >>A little problem still keeps me unhappy: if I install the new
- >>kernel in /386bsd, at boot time bootas tells me: file too big to load.
- >>
- [ ... ]
- >I'll bet that if yu do a 'size' on the kernel,
- >it shows that the sum of the partitions in the file are bigger than that.
- >don't forget the zero filled section is not in the file, it just bzeros it.
- >
- [ ... ]
- >The only answer is to have a kernel that can load above 1MB
- >otherwise it and the loader have to fit in the 640k window.
- >bill jolitz says 0.2 will be able to do this.
- >I frequently have to decide what to leave out of the kernel
- >to add some other feature.
-
- You can load larger than 1 Meg kernels by loading above 1 Meg with Julians
- boot code. You lose the memory below 1 Meg unless you hack to add it back
- into the free pool.
-
- The main "gotcha" is giving a "link-to" address when building the kernel,
- since this isn't automatic.
-
- This works just fine for me with 1.0.
-
- Julian's boot code also has the advantage of allowing you multiple load
- devices (like other SCSI disks) without changing anything else... although
- this won't make things like ISC UNIX (which requires the boot partition be
- the active one so it can find itself) happy.
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- terry_lambert@novell.com
- ---
- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
- or previous employers.
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