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Date:      Tue, 6 Oct 1998 19:28:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.net>
To:        Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Two /boot/loader anomalies 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.04.9810061927550.23836-100000@zone.syracuse.net>
In-Reply-To: <199810061926.VAA17472@semyam.dinoco.de>

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Ahem, watch carefully:
	man -S 1aout strip

Cheers,
Brian Feldman

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Stefan Eggers wrote:

> > > that the "autoboot 5" I specified in /boot/boot.conf does get executed
> > > but has no count down.  I have to press ENTER to get it to boot.  My
> 
> > You'll get this if the timer isn't working properly.  I've seen a 
> > couple of reports of this, but I haven't been able to reproduce it yet.
> 
> Really strange.  The call seems to be correct.  :-(
> 
> > It doesn't, the data segment is a hair over 1k.
> > 
> > I let a -g slip into the libstand Makefile a while back; you may still 
> 
> That is it I guess.  Over 600 KByte.  ;-) I built it on Saturday and
> the flag was removed on Sunday according to the logs.
> 
> > have scads of debugging symbols coming in from there, which will bulk 
> > the loader image way out.  You don't need this (but it makes debugging 
> 
> I tried "strip -aout -d" on it which didn't reduce the size.  Thus I
> thought it would really be that large.  And an a.out strip man page I
> don't have anymore so have no idea what other options there are for
> getting the desired result.
> 
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