From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 9 15:54:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 661C237B40F for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 15:54:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.interbgc.com (mail.interbgc.com [217.9.224.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9DAFB43F75 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 15:54:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nike_d@cytexbg.com) Received: (qmail 30414 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2003 22:54:37 -0000 Received: from nike_d@cytexbg.com by keeper.interbgc.com by uid 1002 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (uvscan: v4.1.60/v4270. Clear:SA:0(-9.6/8.0):. Processed in 0.299735 secs); 09 Jun 2003 22:54:37 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-9.6 required=8.0 Received: from 217-18-240-37.ddns.cablebg.net (HELO tormentor) (217.18.240.37) by mail.interbgc.com with SMTP; 9 Jun 2003 22:54:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 82074 invoked by uid 1006); 9 Jun 2003 22:56:51 -0000 Received: from nike_d@cytexbg.com by tormentor.cytexbg.com by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.15 (sweep: 2.14/3.62. Clear:. Processed in 1.611174 secs); 09 Jun 2003 22:56:51 -0000 Received: from niked (10.0.0.3) by tormentor with SMTP; 9 Jun 2003 22:56:49 -0000 Message-ID: <005701c32eda$20076690$0300000a@niked> From: "Nikolay Denev" To: References: <87llwbqbhv.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:54:47 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: Re: Giant freakin' kernels?!? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 22:54:46 -0000 >From http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/relnotes-i386.html: > > "Due to code size limitations, the i386 boot loader can only load kernels > from root file systems that are 1.5TB or smaller in size." > >I originally parsed that as: > > "Due to code size limitations, the i386 boat loader can only load kernels > smaller than 1.5TB from root file systems." > >I was seriously impressed with the amount of big-iron testing on this >release until I re-read the sentence. >-- >Kirk Strauser >In Googlis non est, ergo non est. congrats, you have passed the reading comprehension test at your second attempt!... -- Cheers, Niki