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- From: deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hans-Christoph Deeken)
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- Subject: Maximal kernel size (was Re: /dev/lp and LARGEW configurations)
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- Date: 14 Sep 92 18:32:24 GMT
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- Paul (dri@gl.pitt.edu) wrote:
- > BTW, when I use the LARGE configuration the kernel builds but when I
- > reboot with the new kernel the boot loader complains that the file
- > (386bsd) is too large to load, andd tries to load 386bsd.alt and
- > 386bsd.old. What is causing this?
-
- I had this problem also. I fiddled a bit with the configuration and got
- the result, that only kernels with a size (text+data+bss) <= 640KB were
- able to boot. The standard PC limit ;-)
- It seems as if the kernel gets loaded into the memory below the area where
- the I/O-cards live. I didn't investigate this further, since I got my kernel
- small enough to boot, with all the features I needed.
-
- Shouldn't it be possible to modify ??boot and boot?? to load the kernel at
- the _end_ of physical memory?
-
- Hannes
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