Subject: Re: 2-disk boot
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
From: Jaromír <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/17/2001 20:30:37
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> 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
be at least partially cured by recent loadfile(9) changes by
Ben Harris (in -current, you'd need bootblocks rev. 2.11).

Jaromir
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