Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 20:25:39 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with initial FreeBSD (2.0.5 CD) installation attempts Message-ID: <m0spSEI-000r3uC@main.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Sep 1995 14:36:43 -0400." <9509031836.AA16298@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett A. Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> > BIOS basemem (637K) != RTC basemem (640K)
>
> This means that your BIOS reserves some of the high memory for its own
> use. FreeBSD tells you this because on some machines, one of the two
> values really is significantly wrong. It probably doesn't matter a
> whole lot.
Hmmm...I could swear that there have been times when I don't get that message.
Shouldn't I get it all the time? Oh well...like you say, I imagine it doesn't
matter a whole lot.
> The Makefile that generates the install floppy is also capable of
> generating a fixit floppy. This really ought to be distributed if it
> isn't already. (Check the `floppies' directory of wherever you got
> your FreeBSD install floppy from.)
Geez...forgot about that floppies directory...boot.flp & root.flp are right
there.
> > I was wondering if I could (or should) do something
> > similar for putting a symlink like this:
>
> > /kernel -> /c/freebsd/kernels/mykernel.001
>
> No. The boot loader cannot handle symbolic links or multiple
> directories. However, you can easily change the name that the kernel
> thinks it was loaded under; read sysctl(8) for the full syntax.
I was thinking more about after the boot process - if I were to consistently
use 'fbsdboot -D' to boot off of a DOS file, then the boot loader shouldn't
care what I've got in /kernel. I'll take a look at sysctl(8) - thanx.
Thanks,
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc.
1700 Westlake Ave N #500
scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109
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