From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 10 00:07:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA06321 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 00:07:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA06315 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 00:07:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA16135; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 01:07:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd016073; Tue Feb 10 01:06:55 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA20965; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 01:06:49 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802100806.BAA20965@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: boot floppy banner To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 08:06:49 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, ade@demon.net, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199802100148.RAA06098@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Feb 9, 98 05:48:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Actually, the problem is all the a.out cruft being in there as well. > > How much smaller is the ELF loader? Not that much smaller. But it's having both that's the problem. > > 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) I'll think about it; it's pretty trivial, I'm betting, except where the "extras" are concerned (they made some things vastly more complex, unfortunately). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message