From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 11 22:36:37 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA04491 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:36:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles165.castles.com [208.214.165.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA04486 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:36:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01046; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:32:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901120632.WAA01046@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Tugrul cc: Robert Nordier , axl@iafrica.com, bright@hotjobs.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD beyond the 1024th cylinder In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Jan 1999 21:16:43 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:32:27 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > As regards the cylinder > 1023 issue, you can save yourself some > > time by regarding the above information as definitive. > > > > All the current booting tools (see src/sys/boot) do support both > > a.out and ELF. This applies both to the bootblocks (boot1 and > > boot2) and to /boot/loader. > > I think I poorly worded what I meant to say earlier... nothing in > sys/i386/boot seems to work with elf. That's correct; the entire contents of sys/i386/boot are obsolete. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message