From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 13:13:26 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA10376 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 13:13:26 -0700 Received: from vhf.dataradio.com (G496.InterLink.NET [198.168.61.62]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA10368 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 13:13:15 -0700 Received: from dri.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by vhf.dataradio.com (8.6.9/8.6.12) with UUCP id QAA12832 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 16:10:01 -0400 Message-Id: <199507252010.QAA12832@vhf.dataradio.com> Received: by dri (UUXFER v1.4); Tue 25 Jul 1995 16:12:10 EDT From: "Andrew Webster" Organization: Dataradio Inc. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 16:12:30 -0500 Subject: BOOT Question X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Andrew Webster" X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk This should probably be under freebsd-hackers, but I'm not subscribed to that list. On FreeBSD-2.0.5-RELEASE, why is there a limit to the maximum size of the boot2 program? I can understand the 512 byte limit on the boot1 program, but since boot1 loads boot2, why limit it to a paltry 7168 bytes? I'am attemping to add some UPS functionality to the system, and need to add a bit of code to prevent the OS from booting if the UPS is not online. Right now, my code slightly exceeds the 7168 byte limit. I know the answer is to write smaller code, but for my own curiosity, I'd like to know why the limit. There is no documentation mentionning it. Thanks for your help! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Webster Network Manager / Special Projects Dataradio Inc. 200-5500 Royalmount Ave. TEL: +1 514 737 0020 Town of Mount Royal, QC, CANADA H4P 1H7 FAX: +1 514 737 7883 http://www.dataradio.com Email: awebster@dataradio.com