From owner-freebsd-small Thu Feb 25 10:59:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14EF14DA7 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:59:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA11517; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:06:32 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:06:32 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Oscar Bonilla Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kzip bombs In-Reply-To: <199902251749.LAA48118@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > > any idea why on a 3.1 system kzip bombs while trying to compress /boot/loader? > it just says > # kzip -v loader > real kernel start address will be: 0x100000 > real kernel end address will be: 0x11f000 > ld: /usr/lib/aout/kzhead.o: No such file or directory > kzip: ld returned 100 > > of course kzhead.o is not in /usr/lib/aout Yep, you need to explicitely make it. cd /sys/i386/kzipboot && make all install > one more thing: why aout? i tought the kernel was supposed to be elf now... > (or is it because of compatibility with older systems?) Kernel is ELF. All userland is ELF. But /boot/loader is a special beast - for some reasons that I don't quite understand it's an ELF binary packaged into an a.out envelope, so it's really really weird... Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message