From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 3 8:28:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9255F37B405 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 08:28:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 3 May 2002 16:27:58 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 173exg-0004iD-00; Fri, 03 May 2002 16:27:08 +0100 Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 16:27:07 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Makoto Matsushita Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4.5-release, kern.flp, kernel.gz, loader issue? In-Reply-To: <20020503230442O.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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