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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!hippo.ru.ac.za!kudu!g89r4222 From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Subject: Re: Kernel >640k with 386BSD-0.1 pk0.2.4 ??? Message-ID: <g89r4222.742548906@kudu> Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za (Usenet News Admin) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa References: <jkizi01.742467528@mailserv> <1993Jul12.151454.6374@gmd.de> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 07:35:06 GMT Lines: 24 In <1993Jul12.151454.6374@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes: >In article <jkizi01.742467528@mailserv>, jkizi01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Class) writes: >As it was recently found out with porting Mach to NetBSD, the Julian >boot loader has a bug, which effectively prevents booting over 1MB. >There will be fixes for this problem soon in NetBSD and 386bsd. Is there an explanation available about all of the ins and outs of loading the kernel above 1MB / can anyone give a summary of what can and can't be done (and what will be fixed). I think are large number of people (including myself) are rather confused about this whole thing of how to load the kernel above 1MB. Could someone please clear up the confusion. Geoff. -- ============================csgr@alpha.ru.ac.za=============================== Geoff Rehmet, Parallel Processing Group, |#define DISCLAIMER These are my Computer Science Department, | ramblings, not the Rhodes University, RSA. | University's