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Date:      Mon, 09 Feb 1998 17:48:36 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        ade@demon.net, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: boot floppy banner 
Message-ID:  <199802100148.RAA06098@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 08 Feb 1998 07:13:58 GMT." <199802080713.AAA27347@usr02.primenet.com> 

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> > 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)
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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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