Subject: Re: 2-disk boot
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/17/2001 21:04:59
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, 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
> with gzipped kernel? how can it seek on gzipped file to read symbols???
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