From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 9 16: 3:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA2937B503; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 16:03:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e99N27i35570; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 16:02:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e99MxYF84751; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 15:59:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200010090610.e9969xh03937@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:59:33 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: Recent kernels won't boot Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, keichii@peorth.iteration.net, rb@gid.co.uk, Mitsuru IWASAKI Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-Oct-00 Mike Smith wrote: >> > That was it. Is the 4MB kernel size limit documented anywhere? >> >> I don't know :-) I luckily noticed this by a lot of trials. > > I'm not aware of any 4MB limit on kernel size (and I ought to be if there > is one 8). Can you run the details past me? (I've regularly booted much > larger kernels in the past...) I think the PSE optimization may limit us to a 4mb kernel size? Perhaps options DISABLE_PSE would work around it then? -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message