From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 29 8:55:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D8AB14C0B for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:55:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkb@shell6.ba.best.com) Received: (from jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.sh) id IAA13804; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:54:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19990329085443.A12419@best.com> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:54:43 -0800 From: "Jan B. Koum " To: Tony Finch , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting systems with lots of memory References: <19990329073057.A28023@best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Tony Finch on Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 05:45:02PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 05:45:02PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote: > "Jan B. Koum " wrote: > >Tony Finch wrote: > >> > >> Are there any obvious things we have missed? I assume the kernel load > >> address is read by /boot/loader from the kernel's ELF header, so that > >> a recent loader can cope. I also assume that the patch included below > >> tweaks all of the required knobs. > > > > Yes, you need to patch load_elf.c > > Excellent! Thanks for the quick reply. Will /boot/loader still be able > to boot old kernels after this patch? (I'm reluctant to completely > hose the machine...) AFAIK it should. Not sure myself to be honest :( > > Also, w.r.t. the serial console problems, can I set the baud rate > early in the boot sequence, and if so, how? The console works once > getty puts up a login prompt but not before then, and I get a whole > lot of garbage that I guess is baud barf (I wouldn't know for sure -- > too much of a newbie). > Don't know. I don't use serial console. Did you check http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/FTL/bootstrap.txt for any info? -- Yan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message