Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 00:55:42 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: julian@whistle.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, hans@brandinnovators.com Subject: Re: bootloader & memory test... Message-ID: <199612281425.AAA01299@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199612281229.XAA17456@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Dec 28, 96 11:29:54 pm"
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Bruce Evans stands accused of saying: > > > >By stripping some options it can go a little smaller, but I'm still > >about 200 bytes short. > > Can't you strip 7K of code from the boot loader? There is no need to > boot FreeBSD after running the memory test. That's not the object; I wanted to add it as a feature to the standard bootloader (if it could be easily done). New user : "halfway through the install I get this sig-11 message" Us : "your RAM is bad" Nu : "norton sez its ok" U : "norton is no good" Nu: "how do I test my RAM then" U: "type 'mem_test'" at the 'boot' prompt" The code as-is works fine standalone; I have no desire to reinvent the wheel. Hence the follow-on question about making it boot/run standalone. > Bruce -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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