Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 11:37:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Tiemann <btman@ugcs.caltech.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: A couple of intermediate-bie questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980626112336.26539R-100000@lionking.org>
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Well, I'd say I'm skiing the blue-square slopes of FreeBSD these days, rather than the green-circles, but I've got a couple of things I'd like to ask rather than just blindly throwing myself into it. (I know, I'm a wimp. :) Question one: I've compiled my kernel with MAXMEM=130048 to account for the fact that when I put the new server online, it'll have 128MB of physical RAM. However, the machine is a replacement for an older one, and the RAM is in the old one (I'm borrowing 64MB at the moment to set it up.) Will the kernel-configged ~128MB RAM limit cause a problem if I boot it on a machine with only 64MB? The server is actually doing stuff right now, so I'm not willing to reboot and just find out, unless I really need to. Question two: The new machine is 2.2.6, and I'm used to 2.2.2. When I first booted 2.2.6, I was surprised to be given a "Boot: BSD (F1)" prompt (or something similar). I hit F1 and it booted, somewhat differently-looking from how I expected, but without trouble. My old machine would give a "boot:" prompt and then boot the default kernel (with the spinning hyphen-bar) in just a few seconds. I guess this might be a result of my having installed the bootloader differently, or something, but whatever. So my question is this: Will the default kernel boot on its own if I don't hit F-anything? I didn't wait long enough last time to find out, and the server won't have a console connected when it's live, so it's important to me to know if rebooting requires console interaction. :) Thanks! Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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