Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:32:27 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Tugrul <tugrul@ianai.BlackSun.org> Cc: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>, axl@iafrica.com, bright@hotjobs.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD beyond the 1024th cylinder Message-ID: <199901120632.WAA01046@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Jan 1999 21:16:43 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.990111211315.5872A-100000@ianai.BlackSun.org>
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> > > > 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
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