Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 20:00:00 -0800 (PST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: kern/5481: boot blocks too big with BOOT_HD_BIAS defined Message-ID: <199801120400.UAA19433@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/5481; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@NUXI.com Cc: Subject: Re: kern/5481: boot blocks too big with BOOT_HD_BIAS defined Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 14:53:28 +1100 > if you uncomment the definition for BOOT_HD_BIAS in > sys/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/Makefile and then make, you get > > dd if=boot.nohdr of=boot2 bs=512 skip=1 > 14+1 records in > 14+1 records out > 7200 bytes transferred in 0.001314 secs (5479269 bytes/sec) > boot2 is too big > *** Error code 2 Not all options can fit, so you have may have to remove option(s) to fit another option. The standard 2.2.5 options leave 0 bytes free, so you always have to remove option(s) to fit even a small option like BOOT_HD_BIAS. > Obvisouly this isn't so serious now that we have /boot.config, > but I liked hard coding this into the boot blocks so I don't have > to worry about the existance of this file. You will have to worry soon when BOOT_HD_BIAS is removed :-). Bruce
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