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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: kern/5481: boot blocks too big with BOOT_HD_BIAS defined
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The following reply was made to PR kern/5481; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@NUXI.com
Cc:  Subject: Re: kern/5481: boot blocks too big with BOOT_HD_BIAS defined
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 14:53:28 +1100

 >	if you uncomment the definition for BOOT_HD_BIAS in
 >	sys/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/Makefile and then make, you get
 >
 >	dd if=boot.nohdr of=boot2 bs=512 skip=1
 >	14+1 records in
 >	14+1 records out
 >	7200 bytes transferred in 0.001314 secs (5479269 bytes/sec)
 >	boot2 is too big
 >	*** Error code 2
 
 Not all options can fit, so you have may have to remove option(s) to
 fit another option.  The standard 2.2.5 options leave 0 bytes free, so
 you always have to remove option(s) to fit even a small option like
 BOOT_HD_BIAS.
 
 >	Obvisouly this isn't so serious now that we have /boot.config,
 >	but I liked hard coding this into the boot blocks so I don't have
 >	to worry about the existance of this file.
 
 You will have to worry soon when BOOT_HD_BIAS is removed :-).
 
 Bruce