From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 3 10: 4:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from postal3.es.net (postal3.es.net [198.128.3.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F166037B41A for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 10:04:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ESMTP id GQF37091; Fri, 03 May 2002 10:04:08 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E7E5D04; Fri, 3 May 2002 10:04:07 -0700 (PDT) To: Makoto Matsushita Cc: Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4.5-release, kern.flp, kernel.gz, loader issue? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 May 2002 23:04:42 +0900." <20020503230442O.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 10:04:07 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20020503170407.33E7E5D04@ptavv.es.net> 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 > From: Makoto Matsushita > Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 23:04:42 +0900 > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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. > > 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. But you can use bzip2(1) with recent releases. I don't remember exactly when bzip2(1) support was added, but certainly within the past year. It will produce a SLIGHTLY smaller file than gzip(1). R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message