Subject: Re: Booter with >1MB miniroot
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us>
From: John D. Smerdon <jds@smerdon.livonia.mi.us>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/30/1996 16:27:39
At 03:42 PM 03/30/96, Allen Briggs wrote:
>Largely because the miniroot and the kernel both have to be loaded into
>memory before booting.

So it doesn't allocate memory based on this size of the miniroot?

I built a miniroot file from -current today, and the size of the "instbin"
(?) file was around 1.2MB.

I don't have a copy of ThinkC, so I am limited to released Booters.

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