From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 11 14:13:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09282 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:13:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ianai.BlackSun.org (Ianai.blacksun.org [168.100.186.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09276 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:13:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tugrul@ianai.BlackSun.org) Received: from localhost (tugrul@localhost) by ianai.BlackSun.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA05338; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:05:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from tugrul@ianai.BlackSun.org) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:05:16 -0500 (EST) From: Tugrul To: Sheldon Hearn cc: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD beyond the 1024th cylinder In-Reply-To: <1255.916092144@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:37:21 EST, Tugrul wrote: > > > None of the boot blocks understand what a elf kernel is afaik. [...] > > The booting tools in general need a major update for elf, I wish I > > knew how to help :/ > > You could help by not posting false information to the mailing lists. :) > > The new bootloader knows about both ELF and AOUT kernels. Just have a > look at recent archives for this mailing list for verification. > afaik = I didn't declare it, just as far as I know :-) I based it on all the "Invalid Kernel" errors I get when I attempt to load it directly. I'll scan through the mailing lists again... try is quite a lot of volume :-) As for Alfred's question on why I would use anything else... I need my quota of games :-) And looking at some web sites I help maintain in other web browsers helps a bit too. Although VNC might cure the latter =] > Ciao, > Sheldon. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message