On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Takahiro Kambe wrote:
> > Then I copied the fdset/boot[12].fs files onto two floppies with dd.
> > 
> > With these floppies, the machine loads the kernel successfully, but at
> > the point where it should show the NetBSD banner, something like:
> In my case, while loading kernel, shows "read strings" and rebooted.

Now that you mention is, my machine did this also.  During a normal
boot process, the loader prints out some numbers showing the different
sizes of the different parts of the kernel.  In my case, the -current
floppies showed numbers something like this:

1400000+1670000+[10000+15000]+6500000000read strings

immediately followed by a reboot.

I'm not really sure what format the end of that line of number should
be (it is wiped by the reboot too quickly), but I do know that the
number that corresponds to the symbol table was *huge*.  On the order
of 6GB, give or take a few zeros.


Paul
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Paul Dokas                                            dokas@cs.umn.edu
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