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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1 BETA boot.c problems References: <CnGK53.39p@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <2nc845$8i9@Germany.EU.net> Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Date: Sat, 2 Apr 1994 11:01:53 GMT Message-ID: <CnMpBp.E3w@veda.is> Lines: 15 bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes: >Did you read the note that said "keep your fingers off the boot code in this >release, it does not work; use the /usr/mdec binaries instead" ? Actually it does work, but needs to be trimmed to fit within the 15-sector limit, or compiled with a different version of the assembler so it fits in the limit. I understand there are some fixes in the pipeline due RSN. I can provide diffs to the bootblocks which let them compile small enough. Mail me if you want them. -- adam@veda.is