Re: NetBSD/xen kernel failures?

[Florian Heigl <floh%deranfangvomen.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 08:18:46PM +0200, Juan RP wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:16:19 +0200
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > I already noticed that grub has troubles reading ffs in some
> > circunstances (it  fails to find the file, or loads the wrong
> > blocks). What parameters do you have for / ? I suspect for a working
> > grub, you need a 8k/1k block/fragment size, ffsv1 only.
> 
> Looks like there's a size limit in grub loading kernel files, because
> days ago when I added the bluetooth devices into XEN2_DOM0
> I had this error too.
>
> My workaround was to compress it with gzip, worked perfectly.

Someone must have reused a bit of Linux code in grub, apparently :)))

( I also remember compressing /netbsd )

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