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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!duncan From: duncan@netcom.com (Donald K. Duncan) Subject: Re: patchkit-0.2.2 kernel re-build too big!? Message-ID: <duncanC4D7wD.F9@netcom.com> Summary: similar problems with Gene's silo bugfix Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1993Mar23.183656.25900@melb.bull.oz.au> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 23:29:01 GMT Lines: 32 In article <1993Mar23.183656.25900@melb.bull.oz.au>, sjg@melb.bull.oz.au (Simon J Gerraty) writes: > >... > > I ran config, make depend, make etc all ok > cp'd the new kernel to / and rebooted. > The boot loader said: > > File too big to load - didn't load 386bsd > >... > > The data and bss segments are _much_ larger - why? > Does adding a second swap device account for it? > I only got the thing back under 0x9000 by cutting the text to > well under 400000. > > Has anyone else noticed this problem? > I'm re-building everything at present and will try again after > that. > -- > Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@zen.void.oz.au> (home) > I didn't have these problems when upgrading to pl-0.2.2 but these symptoms are the same as I had when using Gene's silo overflow bugfix patches. Gene said to use Julian's bootblocks. I am. I haven't patched the 0.2.2 sources yet with Genes patches. Perhaps someone has a solution to loading large kernels. -- duncan@zycad.com (Donald Duncan)