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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Bernd Luevelsmeyer <bernd.luevelsmeyer@heitec.net>
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Subject: Re: nlist failed in 4.0 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 14:07:29 +0200."
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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 14:09:51 +0200
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On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 14:07:29 +0200, Bernd Luevelsmeyer wrote:

> I thought however this was permissible, and I never had problems with
> previous versions of FreeBSD. I don't like all the roundabouts with
> "press any key to start immediatly" and such before it boots, so I'd
> like to leave out the /boot/loader.

Oh it is permissible.  There is just a problem associated with it.
From what I understand, the loader does a better job of making the
kernel symbols available to those applications that need them.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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