From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 8 09:45:59 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA26547 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:45:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26532 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:45:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA73771; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:44:30 -0800 (PST) To: Robert Nordier cc: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki), 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> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 09:44:29 -0800 Message-ID: <73768.915817469@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How about trying to kzip the loader? :) > 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