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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!ortmann From: ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) Subject: Re: Kernel STILL too large Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login) Message-ID: <C57637.L5D@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 03:37:55 GMT References: <1pvu8j$hnf@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Keywords: Boot Blocks Kernel sys-cons Lines: 17 mmead@meadmc.async.vt.edu (Matthew C. Mead) writes: >I ftp'd the sources for the new sys-cons driver and installed it as >well as the rest of the patches in the 0.2.2 patchkit, up to 109, >after which it jumps to 10000....the kernel turned out to be 474790. >So I knew that it wouldn't load up with the standard boot procedure. >So I installed Julian's bootblocks, but to no avail. It told me upon >boot up that it couldn't fit the kernel into 640K with the bss.....it >also said the only hope was to link for >1M ... could someone clue me >in? Adthanksvance What is in your kernel config file? Remove references to ddb and other kernel stuff you don't need. -- Daniel Ortmann NDSU Electrical Engineering ortmann@plains.nodak.edu Fargo, North Dakota