From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 13 11:11:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03780 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:11:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03665 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:10:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id UAA21513; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 20:04:26 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 20:04:26 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Alfred Perlstein cc: Tugrul , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD beyond the 1024th cylinder In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Tugrul wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > > have you tried OS-BSbeta? > > > > > > > "No Operating System" for either FreeBSD or Linux beyond the > > 1024th cylinder. > > > > > have you tried the newer boot blocks? i think you can do what you were > > > able to do in linux with the freebsd newer blocks. > > > > > > > None of the boot blocks understand what a elf kernel is afaik. Any > > tips on loading /boot/loader from a floppy, which then loads the kernel > > off wd0s2a? Or is /boot/loader still limited? I don't think both will fit > > on a floppy... lately my kernels have gotten smaller but they might grow > > in size again. > > The booting tools in general need a major update for elf, I wish I > > knew how to help :/ > > You need to do a search on the lists, i've seen the solution to your > problem discussed before. > > Btw, why are you still using other systems besides FreeBSD? I can't > think of a good reason... :) > > -Alfred Because he wants to develop apps that will run on the other system on the desktops of the unelightened? Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message