Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 16:02:12 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't boot from CD and floppy after make release Message-ID: <199901080002.QAA02125@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Jan 1999 15:10:58 PST." <199901072310.PAA35393@apollo.backplane.com>
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> : > :> kzip is broken now? I *need* kzip for my BOOTP based > :> diskless workstations! > : > :Then you'll need to port it to ELF. > : > :- Jordan > > I've got 3 months worth of VM work that needs to be done. I am *not* > going to spend a month learning how ELF works just to port kzip. > > I can barely fit a minimal uncompressed kernel on a floppy now, and then > only if I use every last block on the floppy. Add in a minimal number > of sound drivers and it becomes impossible. If you guys move to ELF > kernels without a working kzip, it will screw over a lot of people, not > just me. > > If you don't break a.out kernel compilation then we can continue to make > a.out kernels. But if you break a.out kernel compilation ( make it > elf or nothing) it puts a whole bunch of people into a bind. If you want to boot from a floppy (you were complaining before about diskless booting, or I would have mentioned this before), put the new bootloader on the disk and gzip the kernel. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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