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Date:      Thu, 03 Sep 1998 15:47:33 +0000
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
Cc:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Expect more breakage (Re: ELF broke crunchgen/crunchide) 
Message-ID:  <199809031547.PAA01966@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Sep 1998 23:34:00 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809032326380.28105-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> 

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> On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, John Polstra wrote:
> 
> > In article <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809031151070.3219-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>,
> > Andrzej Bialecki  <abial@nask.pl> wrote:
> > 
> > > Today I tried to use crunchgen, and it fails miserably, because it plays
> > > directly with a.out format. I guess we need to teach it about elves...
> 
> ...and I should add to this, that other floppy-generation related tools
> are also affected. E.g. ELF kzip doesn't work, because it tries to link an
> ELF stub with a.out kernel.

kzip is obsoleted by the new bootloader, although I'm not sure that's 
going to help your case much. (kzip is smaller than the new 
bootloader).  You could build kzip a.out pretty easily.

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