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From: mg@guppy.aux.apple.com
Subject: [386BSD] Problem with new boot blocks
Message-ID: <1993Feb24.184415.13437@guppy.aux.apple.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 18:44:15 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc.
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Has anyone notices the following problem with Julian's New Boot code.
After I was to get Julian's SCSI driver installed, I decided to also
install his new boot blocks. After using disklabel to replace the old with
the new, I rebooted.
The message asking for the kernal name came up and I hit return. The next
message was the telling me about the text, data and bss sizes. Then came
the bss overlap, kernal needs to bzero bss message. I thought this would
not be a problem, since this bss is uninitialized data anyway. Then my
system rebooted, and the message asking for the kernal name came up again.
Ok, I've tried servel verions of my kernal, trying to make them as small
as possible. No luck, my system keeps rebooting. I went back to the old
boot blocks and everything is fine. One otherthing I tried was to change
the load point of the kernal from 0xFE00000 to 0xFE100000, again no luck.
I'm sort of stuck now, I want to use the new boot blocks, because of its
advantages, but I've run out of things to check. So this has lead me to
ask for help.
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What I write is mine for you to read. What you read mind you, may not be right.
** NOTE ** I'm just a contractor, I don't claim to speek for Apple Computers.
Mark Gorlinsky
mg@apple.com
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