From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 9 17:50:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14544 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 17:50:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14505 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 17:50:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA06098; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 17:48:36 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802100148.RAA06098@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Terry Lambert cc: ade@demon.net, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy banner In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 08 Feb 1998 07:13:58 GMT." <199802080713.AAA27347@usr02.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 17:48:36 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I'm also starting to tinker with FreeBSD/ELF -- I've read John's > > comments about the bootloader that supports both a.out and ELF > > kernels being too big (presumably because it has the BAD144 cruft > > in it as well). > > Actually, the problem is all the a.out cruft being in there as well. How much smaller is the ELF loader? > Or you could write an ELF program which, when loaded from the boot > blocks that understood ELF, would load a.out kernels. Please do. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message