From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 8 05:48:45 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA25564 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 05:48:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (slip139-92-122-82.joh.za.ibm.net [139.92.122.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA25553 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 05:48:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id PAA01890; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:44:54 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199901081344.PAA01890@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: can't boot from CD and floppy after make release In-Reply-To: from Andrzej Bialecki at "Jan 8, 99 02:15:14 pm" To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:44:51 +0200 (SAT) Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, mike@smith.net.au, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Jordan, if gzip works you could have just said so in the first place! > > > > Sorry, I thought that characteristic of the new boot blocks was already > > common knowledge. > > Bear in mind, though, that you'll need additional 100kB of place on the > floppy (that's approx. the difference between kzip stubs and the > /boot/loader). > > In this light it makes sense to do what rnordier suggested - namely, to > write a small BTX application which would only be able to load kernel.gz. > I _may_ embark on such a project if I have some docs about how to use BTX. If it's likely to be used, I don't mind writing this. It might make a good example application for the BTX docs I'm trying to write. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message