From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Dec 3 15:36:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12454 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:36:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12446 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:36:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA35707; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:36:39 -0800 (PST) To: Wilko Bulte cc: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson), freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing boot? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Dec 1998 22:08:57 +0100." <199812032109.WAA02614@yedi.iaf.nl> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 15:36:38 -0800 Message-ID: <35704.912728198@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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