Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:44:51 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, mike@smith.net.au, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't boot from CD and floppy after make release Message-ID: <199901081344.PAA01890@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901081412430.21487-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> from Andrzej Bialecki at "Jan 8, 99 02:15:14 pm"
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Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Jordan, if gzip works you could have just said so in the first place! > > > > Sorry, I thought that characteristic of the new boot blocks was already > > common knowledge. > > Bear in mind, though, that you'll need additional 100kB of place on the > floppy (that's approx. the difference between kzip stubs and the > /boot/loader). > > In this light it makes sense to do what rnordier suggested - namely, to > write a small BTX application which would only be able to load kernel.gz. > I _may_ embark on such a project if I have some docs about how to use BTX. If it's likely to be used, I don't mind writing this. It might make a good example application for the BTX docs I'm trying to write. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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