From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 16 20:22:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00314 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 20:22:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from PigStuy.nws.net (nyc-ny78-16.ix.netcom.com [209.109.229.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00263 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 20:21:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@ix.netcom.com) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by PigStuy.nws.net (8.9.1/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA02168; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 23:20:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spork@ix.netcom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: PigStuy.nws.net: spork owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 23:20:34 -0500 (EST) From: Spike X-Sender: spork@PigStuy.nws.net Reply-To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com To: Eddie Lawhead cc: sporkl@ix.netcom.com, fbsdqs Subject: Re: Need for new bootblocks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Eddie Lawhead wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Spike wrote: > > > > > I have a new 3.0-RELEASE ELF system, just upgraded from 2.2.8 by > > make-out-to-elf. I have the old bootblocks installed on my hard drive, and > > I can boot with no problems. Why would I need the new bootblocks? > > > > Have you compiled your kernel as ELF? The standard 3.0R does not have an > ELF kernel, and AFAIK make-out-to-elf will not do it. I really think you > need the new boot blocks for an ELF kernel. Will they also work with an a.out kernel? > > Eddie H. Lawhead > > > > > -Spike Gronim > > sporkl@ix.netcom.com > > > > > > The majority only rules those who let them. > > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Eddie H. Lawhead FreeBSD: The Power To Serve > Kelowna, BC, Canada http://www.FreeBSD.org > eddie@silk.net http://www.Silk.net > ---------------------------------------------------- > | Silk Internet: Your Smooth Connection To The Net | > ----------------------------------------------------- > =-=-=-=-=-=-= Enriched, V-Card, HTML Messages > /dev/null =-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com The majority only rules those who let them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message