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Date:      Thu, 10 May 2001 12:38:08 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        henk@home.cg.nu, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: PicoBSD net is not working?
Message-ID:  <20010510123808.C52487@tao.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200105101122.NAA57615@info.iet.unipi.it>; from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:22:28PM %2B0200
References:  <20010510120544.A52487@tao.org.uk> <200105101122.NAA57615@info.iet.unipi.it>

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On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:22:28PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > There's got to be a better way to do this.
> >=20
> > This figure is settable in the picobsd interactive menu.  It's a shame
> > that it doesn't get copied into the kernel config file somehow.
> >=20
> > It's a shame that we can't specify MD_ROOT_SIZE as a build time kernel
> > option yet.
>=20
> the problem is that if you modify the kernel config file,
> it becomes trickier to handle the dependencies.
>=20
> The interactive menu was designed when the image was not part
> of the kernel. Now that it is (and is the only way i could
> think to get rid of the 80+KB of the loader), you have
> to rebuild a kernel, unless there is some smart tool
> to add a section with the MD image to a ELF file and let the code in
> the kernel peek into that section...

Of course when we were running /boot/loader it wasn't a problem.
Hmm.

What's write_mfs_in_kernel.c?

Joe

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