From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 29 8:45:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from noc.demon.net (server.noc.demon.net [193.195.224.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4F9914C43 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:45:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fanf@demon.net) Received: by noc.demon.net; id RAA14781; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:45:09 +0100 (BST) Received: from fanf.noc.demon.net(195.11.55.83) by inside.noc.demon.net via smap (3.2) id xma014756; Mon, 29 Mar 99 17:45:03 +0100 Received: from fanf by fanf.noc.demon.net with local (Exim 1.73 #2) id 10Rf9p-0006JR-00; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:45:01 +0100 To: jkb@best.com, current@freebsd.org From: Tony Finch Cc: Tony Finch Subject: Re: booting systems with lots of memory In-Reply-To: <19990329073057.A28023@best.com> References: Message-Id: Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:45:02 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jan B. Koum " wrote: >Tony Finch wrote: >> >> Are there any obvious things we have missed? I assume the kernel load >> address is read by /boot/loader from the kernel's ELF header, so that >> a recent loader can cope. I also assume that the patch included below >> tweaks all of the required knobs. > > Yes, you need to patch load_elf.c Excellent! Thanks for the quick reply. Will /boot/loader still be able to boot old kernels after this patch? (I'm reluctant to completely hose the machine...) Also, w.r.t. the serial console problems, can I set the baud rate early in the boot sequence, and if so, how? The console works once getty puts up a login prompt but not before then, and I get a whole lot of garbage that I guess is baud barf (I wouldn't know for sure -- too much of a newbie). Tony. -- f.a.n.finch dot@dotat.at fanf@demon.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message