chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) (07/08/89)
We thought we had this network thing figured out. Unfortunately, the IBM PC architecture came up and bit us in the behind. SCO TCP/IP works fine. SCO Xenix-Net works fine. Put them together in a 2.3 kernel and the kernel is too big to boot. Since the boot process runs in real mode, you can't have more than 640K of code+data in your kernel -- or so it appears, anyway. How can I boot a big kernel? Is there any way around this problem? Help! -- You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise. Chip Salzenberg | <chip@ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip> A T Engineering | Me? Speak for my company? Surely you jest!
itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List) (07/08/89)
In article <24B521A8.8458@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: > 2.3 kernel and the kernel is too big to boot. Since the boot process runs > in real mode, you can't have more than 640K of code+data in your kernel -- > or so it appears, anyway. > > How can I boot a big kernel? Is there any way around this problem? Help! > We had the same problem. Although it was not clear that this was the problem. We were trying to load in some tape drivers and multiport board drivers and loadl pseudo-ttys and MultiView and... Anyway, it seems that SCO has a modified version of /boot that will boot a >640K kernel. Have you checked with TechSupport? We could always send it to you if they don't/won't. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ : Steven List @ Transact Software, Inc. :^>~ : : Chairman, Unify User Group of Northern California : : {apple,coherent,limbo,mips,pyramid,ubvax}!itkin@guinan.Transact.COM :
fischer@netmbx.UUCP (Axel Fischer) (07/09/89)
In article <24B521A8.8458@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >How can I boot a big kernel? Is there any way around this problem? Help! There is a patch available direct from SCO for this problem. Or download the patch yourself from there anonymous UUCP machine (sosco), a list of the patches is in ~uucp/SLS/info. -Axel -- Domain: fischer@netmbx.UUCP Europe: ...!tmpmbx!netmbx!fischer Rest of world: ...!uunet!pyramid!tmpmbx!netmbx!fischer =====> Beam me up, Scotty - there is no intelligent life down here ! <=====