Subject: Re: Boot blocks croak on kernels with full debug table
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Craig Metz <cmetz@inner.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/21/1996 15:51:43
>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?

-rwx------  1 root  ipv6  8405572 May 21 11:42 netbsd.gdb

	Once upon a time it was bigger (I stripped out some options). But it
still won't boot. The stripped version works fine.

									-Craig