From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 12 02:49:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA00795 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 02:49:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA00779 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 02:49:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id TAA24750; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:48:28 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <369B23F9.E4B8A936@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:29:13 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tugrul CC: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD beyond the 1024th cylinder References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tugrul wrote: > > None of the boot blocks understand what a elf kernel is afaik. Any > tips on loading /boot/loader from a floppy, which then loads the kernel > off wd0s2a? Or is /boot/loader still limited? I don't think both will fit > on a floppy... lately my kernels have gotten smaller but they might grow > in size again. AFAIK, not only loader, but also btx, will support loading hd kernels even if booted from floppy. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com If you sell your soul to the Devil and all you get is an MCSE from it, you haven't gotten market rate. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message