Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 16:27:20 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Cc: re@feebsd.org Subject: alpha 5.0 BOOTMFS way too fat .. Message-ID: <15804.23096.674450.355772@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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I don't know if its the new toolchain, or if its general kernel bloat, but a 5.0 BOOTMFS is nowhere near fitting onto a floppy: % ls -lR /mnt/ total 1205 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 25 21:37 boot/ -rw------- 1 root wheel 1228800 Oct 25 21:37 kernel.gz /mnt/boot: total 198 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 640 Oct 25 21:37 device.hints -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 196128 Oct 25 21:37 loader* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 229 Oct 25 21:37 loader.rc And the size of BOOTMFS is: % ls -l kernel.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 gallatin wheel 1396562 Oct 27 16:17 kernel.gz* I'm going to start trying to throw things over the side to lighten the load, but I'm a little unsure how the driver floppy works. May I jettison all drivers which are modules? Or do I need to keep all possible scsi drivers required to boot the machine (in case we booted from a SCSI CD)? Or does a different kernel get used for CD boots? Or can /boot/loader make itself useful and load the drivers? Thanks, Drew PS: My peeking at this in no way represents a commitment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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