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Date:      Wed, 4 Sep 1996 21:27:51 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        julian@freefall.freebsd.org (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot Makefile boot.c boot2.S
Message-ID:  <199609041927.VAA03055@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199609041828.LAA25527@freefall.freebsd.org> from Julian Elischer at "Sep 4, 96 11:28:39 am"

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As Julian Elischer wrote:

>   1/ Makefile:  the maximum size for boot2 is 7.5K not 7K,
>   so don't complain until it reaches THAT size..
>   newfs leaves 8K and boot 1 is 512k. leaving 7.5K becasue the disklabel
>   is considered to part of the boot2 file.

Back this out, please.  You have just broken booting off 1.2 MB floppies
(which only have 7.5 KB on their first track).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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