Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 16:08:41 +0900 From: Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> To: msmith@freebsd.org Cc: iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org, rb@gid.co.uk, keichii@peorth.iteration.net, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent kernels won't boot Message-ID: <20001009160841N.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200010090610.e9969xh03937@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <20001009150139M.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> <200010090610.e9969xh03937@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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> I'm not aware of any 4MB limit on kernel size (and I ought to be if there > is one 8). Can you run the details past me? (I've regularly booted much > larger kernels in the past...) OK, I built 5 kernels based on the same kerne config file giving some modifications. Here is the result. boot? kernel size description ( (+)Add (-)Delete ) -------+---------------+---------------------------------------------- OK 4007152 (+)device acpica NG 4182845 (+)device acpica (+)options ACPI_DEBUG OK 4011963 (+)device acpica (+)options ACPI_DEBUG (-)USB stuff OK 3470869 GENERIC OK 16022220 config -g GENERIC Mysteriously, kernel.debug (16MB) does boot... Ah, probably section size limitation? % size ACPICA/kernel* GENERIC/kernel* text data bss dec hex filename 3176366 370104 172152 3718622 38bdde ACPICA/kernel.big 3058264 346724 165848 3570836 367c94 ACPICA/kernel.normal 3009909 368024 169688 3547621 3621e5 ACPICA/kernel.small 2745241 206872 152184 3104297 2f5e29 GENERIC/kernel 2745241 206872 152184 3104297 2f5e29 GENERIC/kernel.debug Maybe /boot/ stuff is reltated with this too. % ls -ltR /boot total 908 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 3072 10/ 8 15:50 kernel -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 159744 10/ 8 15:49 liloboot -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 157696 10/ 8 15:49 pxeboot -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 157696 10/ 8 15:49 cdboot drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 10/ 8 15:49 defaults -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 155648 10/ 8 15:49 loader -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7680 10/ 8 15:49 boot2 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 10/ 8 15:49 boot1 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 10/ 8 15:49 boot0 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 10/ 8 15:49 mbr drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 10/ 7 11:29 kernel.old -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7816 10/ 6 02:08 loader.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1440 10/ 4 19:23 device.hints -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 155648 10/ 2 16:35 loader.old -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7577 9/27 10:57 loader.4th -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 35170 9/27 10:57 support.4th drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 9/16 18:33 modules -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 24 8/ 4 23:58 kernel.conf -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 12064 4/17 16:33 loader.help -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 338 1/31 2000 loader.rc /boot/kernel: total 8536 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20741 10/ 8 15:50 if_wi.ko : -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15097 10/ 8 15:49 3dfx.ko -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3891459 10/ 8 15:40 kernel /boot/defaults: total 8 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7979 9/19 04:38 loader.conf /boot/kernel.old: total 3768 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3844898 10/ 7 11:29 kernel /boot/modules: Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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