From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 8 08:13:22 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA12660 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 08:13:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles244.castles.com [208.214.165.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA12654 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 08:13:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA02956; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 08:08:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901081608.IAA02956@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Robert Nordier cc: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki), 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 Jan 1999 15:44:51 +0200." <199901081344.PAA01890@ceia.nordier.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 08:08:38 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. It'd definitely be useful for the PicoBSD people, and anyone else that didn't need the loader's functionality. I'd also be interested in knowing if you have any compression/decompression tools suitable for use with BTX eg. to compress the application data/expand it when BTX relocates. -- \\ 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