Subject: Re: port-i386/5102: i386 kernels larger than about 3.1MB won't load correctly
To: Chuck Cranor <email@example.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <firstname.lastname@example.org>
Date: 03/03/1998 08:55:50
> > It seems that i386 kernels larger than about 3.1MB won't load
> > correctly, causing the system to hang while the kernel startup code
> > in locore is running.
> isn't this the same problem as PR#4832 ("4MB temp kernel mapping too
> small for large ramdisk kernels")? if so, it just needs a clean
> version of the i386 asm "quick fix" in that PR.
Yeah. You were (at least) the second person to point out the dup. (I
don't recall seeing the original PR, but probably should have
checked... doubt any search i would have done would have found it,
Anyway, yah, it can probably be fixed the same way.