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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: >1M kernel?
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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 07:40:31 GMT
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In <2qk29d$926@news.ysu.edu> ap713@yfn.ysu.edu (Christopher L. Mikkelson) writes:
> A friend of mine configured his kernel so it wound up over 640K.
>The machine, of course, wouldn't boot, and suggested that we compile it
>for >1Meg. How do you do this?
FreeBSD 1.1 always places the kernel above the 1M boundary, and reclaims
the area below 640K for use by user programs.
You don't need any extra tricks to compile for a kernel which resides
above 1M. (I can't remember exactly what 1.0 did, although I think it
also put the kernel above 1M.)
Just build yourself a config file based on GENERICAH or GENERICBT,
config your kernel, compile it, and install it ;-)
Geoff.
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