From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 6 12:38:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26975 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:38:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tim.xenologics.com (tim.xenologics.com [194.77.5.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26965 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:38:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tim.xenologics.com (8.8.5/8.8.8) with UUCP id VAA02264; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 21:34:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from semyam.dinoco.de (semyam.dinoco.de [127.0.0.1]) by semyam.dinoco.de (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA17472; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 21:26:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Message-Id: <199810061926.VAA17472@semyam.dinoco.de> To: Mike Smith cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, seggers@semyam.dinoco.de Subject: Re: Two /boot/loader anomalies In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 11:45:43 PDT." <199810061845.LAA00454@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 21:26:14 +0200 From: Stefan Eggers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message