Subject: Re: source for booter?
To: None <briggs@puma.macbsd.com>
From: Masami and Ken Nakata <masami@fa2.so-net.or.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/10/1997 12:27:20
On Sun, 9 Feb 1997 21:27:19 -0500 (EST),
briggs@puma.macbsd.com wrote:
> The main (only?) change I made was to support booting with larger
> kernels--it dynamically sizes RAM to account for larger symbol tables.
> Older versions of the booter just assumed that the symbol table would be
> 120K or less...  Many post-1.2 kernels do exceed this size.

What will happen if symbol table size exceeds the predefined limit?
Will it boot at all, or will I see something weird happen after it
enters multi-user mode?

Maybe it's time I upgraded the booter, though...

Ken