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From: fredriks@austin.ibm.com (Lars Fredriksen)
Subject: Re: Building a kernel larger than 640K
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 17:37:56 GMT
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In article <JKH.93Oct26164254@whisker.lotus.ie>, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
> >Does anyone have any info on building a kernel for FreeBSD-1.0-EPSILON
> >which loads above the 1mb boundary.  I've looked and can't see any info
> >on how to build such a beast.   I'd like to for various reasons, one being
> 
> In EPSILON you need to edit the /sys/compile/<your-kernel>/Makefile
> to change the load address from FE000000 to FE100000.  In RELEASE
> (not yet released :-), you can config your kernel at such an address
> with the 'at' directive, I.E.:
> 
> config		"386bsd" at 0xFE100000 root on sd0 swap on sd0
> 

Not to be a pain in the neck, but the "at" directive works on Epsilon!!!!!!


Lars
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