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Date:      Tue, 06 Oct 1998 21:26:14 +0200
From:      Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, seggers@semyam.dinoco.de
Subject:   Re: Two /boot/loader anomalies 
Message-ID:  <199810061926.VAA17472@semyam.dinoco.de>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 11:45:43 PDT." <199810061845.LAA00454@dingo.cdrom.com> 

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> > that the "autoboot 5" I specified in /boot/boot.conf does get executed
> > but has no count down.  I have to press ENTER to get it to boot.  My

> You'll get this if the timer isn't working properly.  I've seen a 
> couple of reports of this, but I haven't been able to reproduce it yet.

Really strange.  The call seems to be correct.  :-(

> It doesn't, the data segment is a hair over 1k.
> 
> I let a -g slip into the libstand Makefile a while back; you may still 

That is it I guess.  Over 600 KByte.  ;-) I built it on Saturday and
the flag was removed on Sunday according to the logs.

> have scads of debugging symbols coming in from there, which will bulk 
> the loader image way out.  You don't need this (but it makes debugging 

I tried "strip -aout -d" on it which didn't reduce the size.  Thus I
thought it would really be that large.  And an a.out strip man page I
don't have anymore so have no idea what other options there are for
getting the desired result.

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