From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 11 20:37:19 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA24519 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 20:37:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles165.castles.com [208.214.165.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA24512 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 20:37:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00487; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 20:33:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901120433.UAA00487@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Tugrul cc: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD beyond the 1024th cylinder In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:37:21 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 20:33:25 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > have you tried the newer boot blocks? i think you can do what you were > > able to do in linux with the freebsd newer blocks. > > None of the boot blocks understand what a elf kernel is afaik. Any Really? > The booting tools in general need a major update for elf, I wish I > knew how to help :/ You can go to /sys/boot and start offering patches and suggestions on the quite functional ELF-supporting boot tools that you find there. Patches are, of course, preferred to suggestions. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message