From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 20 15:38:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA07789 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:38:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.safemail.com (ns2.safemail.com [204.89.219.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07782 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:38:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from support@safemail.com) Received: from thinkpad.safemail.com (ns4.safemail.com [204.89.219.4]) by ns2.safemail.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA02763 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 16:34:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <075e01be14de$99685780$04db59cc@thinkpad.safemail.com> Reply-To: "safemail.support" From: "safemail.support" To: Subject: Re: Changing the load address of the kernel? Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:36:29 -0800 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 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i tried the same and got no response except for windoze support... please email me any info if you would... tia tinker ...william.o.yates...owner...safemail.internet.services...tinker@safemail.com...bus.408.778.5570...3615.jackson.oaks.court...morgan. hill...california...united.states...95037... -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Fromme Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.hackers,mpc.lists.freebsd.hackers Date: Friday, November 20, 1998 3:25 AM Subject: Changing the load address of the kernel? Hi, After posting this to freebsd-questions I realized that it's probably much better suited for -hackers. I'm sorry for the double posting. I'm trying to change the load address of the kernel, but without success. The default seems to be f0100000 (causing the bootloader to load it at 00100000). I tried to change it to f0400000. I changed the load address in two files: /sys/i386/conf/Makefile.i386 (one line) /sys/kern/link_aout.c (two lines) The bootloader (I'm using rawboot from a floppy) correctly loads the kernel to 00400000, but it hangs right after that. Did I miss anything? Any help would be greatly appreciated. BTW, I'm using a 3.0-19981103-SNAP with ELF userland and aout kernel. I searched the mailing list archives on this topic, but without success. Background of the problem: I'm trying to boot a diskless computer with a network boot ROM by LanWorks (www.lanworks.com). They require to make a bootable floppy first, then put an image of that floppy on a tftp server. The ROM loads that image, makes a RAM disk from it and boots it. The problem is: That RAM disks seems to overlap with the kernel at 00100000. There doesn't seem to be a way to change the location of the RAM disk. BTW, I also tried to contact InCom (www.incom.de) for boot ROMs, but they're completely unresponsive. The demo version that they offer is from 1995 and doesn't seem to support any PCI FastEthernet cards. :-( Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message