Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 15:36:38 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson), freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing boot? Message-ID: <35704.912728198@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Dec 1998 22:08:57 %2B0100." <199812032109.WAA02614@yedi.iaf.nl>
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> So, I took another angle: grabbed kern.flp and mfsroot from FreeBSD > SNAP251198. Kern.flp boots OK, then asks for the MFSroot floppy. The .gz > of mfsroot is: 835517 Dec 3 21:11 mfsroot.gz Ungzipping and vnconfig gives: > /dev/vn0c 2839 2065 774 73% /mnt > > So: well over 1.44 Mb floppy size. Question: can the kernel use a gzipped > mfsroot? Yes and no. You're supposed to just load the gzip'd mfsroot from the boot blocks which will then handle the actual decompression before the kernel ever sees it. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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