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From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: Kernel >640k with 386BSD-0.1 pk0.2.4 ???
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References: <jkizi01.742467528@mailserv> <1993Jul12.151454.6374@gmd.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 07:35:06 GMT
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In <1993Jul12.151454.6374@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes:

>In article <jkizi01.742467528@mailserv>, jkizi01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Class) writes:

>As it was recently found out with porting Mach to NetBSD, the Julian
>boot loader has a bug, which effectively prevents booting over 1MB.
>There will be fixes for this problem soon in NetBSD and 386bsd.

Is there an explanation available about all of the ins and outs
of loading the kernel above 1MB / can anyone give a summary of
what can and can't be done (and what will be fixed).

I think are large number of people (including myself) are rather
confused about this whole thing of how to load the kernel above
1MB.

Could someone please clear up the confusion.

Geoff.
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