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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!socs.uts.edu.au!syzygy!raz
From: raz@socs.uts.edu.au (The Inimitable Raz)
Subject: Re: At boot: file too big to load.
Message-ID: <raz.724317714@syzygy>
Sender: news@socs.uts.edu.au
Organization: Computing Sciences, Uni of Technology, Sydney.
References: <3627@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Date: 14 Dec 92 07:21:54 GMT
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mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (H. Murakami) writes:


>>At the end I succeeded recompiling that damn kernel.
>>A little problem still keeps me unhappy: if I install the new
>>kernel in /386bsd, at boot time bootas tells me: file too big to load.

>I also have this trouble.
>I applied the patches to enable the Julian's 
>new new SCSI drivers for AHA busmaster cards.

>The fatted kernel no longer be loaded at the boot time.
>	If any person knows the effective cure for this 
>problem, please let me know.

Answer courtesy of Julian:

> I use the bootblocks generated by the code I posted
> recently.
> look in ref: /usr/src/sys.386bsd/i386/boot
> 
> julian.
--
Bye for now.
         - Raz           

raz@socs.uts.edu.au   (Roland Turner)   (OH) 61 2 319 5700