adnan@sgtech.uucp (Adnan Yaqub) (04/10/91)
[ This is a second post. I don't know what happened to the first. ] I am trying to help someone out with a problem. He is trying to boot a large kernel on a SCO Xenix 2.3.2 386 machine. WHen the kernel is too large, the bootstrap program (boot) seems to start to load the kernel and then silently retruns to the boot: prompt. The size of his kernel which boots is: 288588 + 79648 + 207960 = 576196 = 0x8cac4 while the one that doesn't boot is: 288588 + 79648 + 208680 = 576916 = 0x8cd94 I made a large kernel that wouldn't boot. I was running SCO Xenix 2.3.3 on a 386. The one I made would cause boot to spit out the error message: invalid xs_rbase! and then return to the boot: prompt. Its size was: 242192 + 39536 + 547828= 829556 = 0xca874 If I decreased the BSS done by 4k, it would boot. Can someone please explain to me what the restrictions are with the bootstrap program? Thanks, -- Adnan Yaqub (adnan@sgtech.uucp) Star Gate Technologies 29300 Aurora Rd, Solon, OH, 44139, USA, +1 216 349 1860