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Date:      Fri, 18 Jun 1999 00:09:03 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
To:        Richard Cownie <tich@ma.ikos.com>
Cc:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4GB dram
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906172356140.2426-100000@freja.webgiro.com>
In-Reply-To: <99061716084400.14101@par28.ma.ikos.com>

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On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Richard Cownie wrote:

> It's desperately painful to debug this, because as far as I know the
> only way to get any kernel to boot is to power down the machine, physically
> unplug one of the dimms, power up again, install new kernel, power down,
> plug the dimm back in ...  If I could fit the kernel on a floppy the
> debugging cycle would be much quicker, but it seems too big for that.

??? It's hard to believe you can't fit a gzipped kernel on the floppy...
unless it's a 360kB one. The loader will boot it just fine.


Andrzej Bialecki

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