Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 08:06:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, ade@demon.net, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy banner Message-ID: <199802100806.BAA20965@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199802100148.RAA06098@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Feb 9, 98 05:48:36 pm
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> > Actually, the problem is all the a.out cruft being in there as well. > > How much smaller is the ELF loader? Not that much smaller. But it's having both that's the problem. > > 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) I'll think about it; it's pretty trivial, I'm betting, except where the "extras" are concerned (they made some things vastly more complex, unfortunately). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message
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