Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:54:43 -0800 From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting systems with lots of memory Message-ID: <19990329085443.A12419@best.com> In-Reply-To: <E10Rf9p-0006JR-00@fanf.noc.demon.net>; from Tony Finch on Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 05:45:02PM %2B0100 References: <E10RdG0-0006C0-00@fanf.noc.demon.net> <E10RdG0-0006C0-00@fanf.noc.demon.net> <19990329073057.A28023@best.com> <E10Rf9p-0006JR-00@fanf.noc.demon.net>
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On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 05:45:02PM +0100, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote: > "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> wrote: > >Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote: > >> > >> Are there any obvious things we have missed? I assume the kernel load > >> address is read by /boot/loader from the kernel's ELF header, so that > >> a recent loader can cope. I also assume that the patch included below > >> tweaks all of the required knobs. > > > > Yes, you need to patch load_elf.c > > Excellent! Thanks for the quick reply. Will /boot/loader still be able > to boot old kernels after this patch? (I'm reluctant to completely > hose the machine...) AFAIK it should. Not sure myself to be honest :( > > Also, w.r.t. the serial console problems, can I set the baud rate > early in the boot sequence, and if so, how? The console works once > getty puts up a login prompt but not before then, and I get a whole > lot of garbage that I guess is baud barf (I wouldn't know for sure -- > too much of a newbie). > Don't know. I don't use serial console. Did you check http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/FTL/bootstrap.txt for any info? -- Yan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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