Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 17:48:36 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: ade@demon.net, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy banner Message-ID: <199802100148.RAA06098@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 08 Feb 1998 07:13:58 GMT." <199802080713.AAA27347@usr02.primenet.com>
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> > I'm also starting to tinker with FreeBSD/ELF -- I've read John's > > comments about the bootloader that supports both a.out and ELF > > kernels being too big (presumably because it has the BAD144 cruft > > in it as well). > > Actually, the problem is all the a.out cruft being in there as well. How much smaller is the ELF loader? > Or you could write an ELF program which, when loaded from the boot > blocks that understood ELF, would load a.out kernels. Please do. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message
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