From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 7 16:07:48 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA29631 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 16:07:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA29624 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 16:07:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02125; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 16:02:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901080002.QAA02125@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Matthew Dillon cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Mike Smith , Andreas Klemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't boot from CD and floppy after make release In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 Jan 1999 15:10:58 PST." <199901072310.PAA35393@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 16:02:12 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > : > :> 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