On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 05:45:02PM +0100, Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote:
> "Jan B. Koum " <j...@best.com> wrote:
> >Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote:
> >>
> >> Are there any obvious things we have missed? I assume the kernel load
> >> address is read by /boot/loader from the kernel's ELF header, so that
> >> a recent loader can cope. I also assume that the patch included below
> >> tweaks all of the required knobs.
> >
> > Yes, you need to patch load_elf.c
>
> Excellent! Thanks for the quick reply. Will /boot/loader still be able
> to boot old kernels after this patch? (I'm reluctant to completely
> hose the machine...)
AFAIK it should. Not sure myself to be honest :(
>
> Also, w.r.t. the serial console problems, can I set the baud rate
> early in the boot sequence, and if so, how? The console works once
> getty puts up a login prompt but not before then, and I get a whole
> lot of garbage that I guess is baud barf (I wouldn't know for sure --
> too much of a newbie).
>
Don't know. I don't use serial console. Did you check
http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/FTL/bootstrap.txt for any info?
-- Yan
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