Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 16:27:07 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4.5-release, kern.flp, kernel.gz, loader issue? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0205031625260.2943-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020503230442O.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 3 May 2002, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > Jan.Grant> Quick question: can someone confirm that the loader on the > Jan.Grant> kern.flp image that comes with 4.5-release can handle a > Jan.Grant> compressed kernel image? > > Yes. Mount kern.flp (it's a simple UFS filesystem) and see what's in it. /boot/loader, /boot/loader.rc, /kernel.gz > Jan.Grant> I suspect this is my fault (I've already worked around it) - > Jan.Grant> but just checking. > > How do you gzip your kernel? You can use gzip(1) to gzip kernel, and > you can't use kgzip(8) for that. I didn't; I downloaded and wrote the kern.flp disk image from the ftp site. When I booted it, the loader didn't know how to read the kernel.gz that was sitting there. > Jan.Grant> I suspect most people are using bootable ISO images these > Jan.Grant> days. > > I think so too, I know that many users fetch ISO image instead of > the distribution itself, from snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org :-) I'll put this one down to cosmic rays. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk and Nostradamus never dreamed of the Church of the Accellerated Worm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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