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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!darwin.sura.net!udel!sbcs.sunysb.edu!stark.UUCP!gene From: gene@stark.uucp (Gene Stark) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Software Solution to "com: silo overflow" Date: 23 Mar 93 08:02:42 Organization: Gene Stark's home system Lines: 23 Message-ID: <GENE.93Mar23080242@stark.stark.uucp> References: <GENE.93Mar15225407@stark.stark.uucp> <duncanC4B7DF.zI@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stark.uucp In-reply-to: duncan@netcom.com's message of 22 Mar 93 21:22:27 GMT In article <duncanC4B7DF.zI@netcom.com> duncan@netcom.com (Donald K. Duncan) writes: I patched my kernel sources (pl.0.2.1) with your patches and compiled without difficulty. The kernel however is around 710KB total. The Bss segment nearly doubled in size! Is this correct? The buffers you added shouldn't be anywhere near this size. I get errors trying to boot the kernel as there is a requirement that it fit in the lower 640K (braindead!). Do you know of a way around this problem? I don't really know what happened to you. My suggestion is to do a full "make clean; make depend; make" to completely recompile from scratch. If the kernel is still too big, you can either config it to remove drivers you are not using, or you can install Julian's bootblocks to be able to boot a larger kernel. So far, I have been lazy and have just been removing drivers that I don't need, as I have added drivers that I do need. Pretty soon I am going to have to chance it and install the new bootblocks. - Gene Stark -- stark@cs.sunysb.edu