From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 27 2:24:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42D7D37B479; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 02:24:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13p5kP-000Mav-0Y; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:24:26 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA64478; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:29:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:28:38 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/common main.c src/sys/boot/al In-Reply-To: <200010262235.e9QMZMh01530@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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