Subject: Re: 2-disk boot
To: Jarommr Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/17/2001 20:57:57
> > 2-disk boot reads about half of disk, then ask for second disk, then FOR
> > FIRST, then for second!!!! and... works good.
> >
> > why this disk swapping?!
>
> This is due to way bootloader reads the kernel. It reads some
> part of the image, then seeks back to get symbols. This should
with gzipped kernel? how can it seek on gzipped file to read symbols???