Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:28:38 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/common main.c src/sys/boot/al Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010271028290.256-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <200010262235.e9QMZMh01530@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > Now that I think about it, its obvious that this is caused by Matt's > > change to the load address of /boot/loader which in retrospect was a bad > > move since it hoses people who do a 'make world' without > > relabelling. Actually we should probably back that out since potentially > > many people could lose with that one in a way which is difficult to fix > > without a full reinstall. > > Forgive the silly question, but is there any reason that boot1 doesn't > read the load address from the loader object? On alpha, /boot/loader is just a binary (the headers have been stripped off). When I wrote it, I didn't think I would be able to squeeze an ELF loader into the space available. Currently there are 280 bytes spare - probably not enough. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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