Subject: Re: Boot blocks croak on kernels with full debug table
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/21/1996 21:53:28
>On Tue, 21 May 1996 07:46:37 -0400 
> Craig Metz <cmetz@inner.net> wrote:

> > 	Whenever I attempt to boot a NetBSD kernel that has the full
> > debug table in it, the boot loader (v1.27 & v1.28) prints the appropriate 
> > segment breakdown and appears to be properly reading the kernel, but, when
> > it would normally jump to the kernel's entry point and start running, my
> > system goes off into never-never land. Is this problem being worked on?

>Ick ... I thought the kernel size limit disappeared a long time ago.  I 
>wonder if anyone was aware of it :-)
>How big is your kernel with debugging symbols?

Are you sure the kernel isn't bigger than your RAM?  I know a
fully-symboled kernel on my machine is almost 15MB.

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