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From: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Kernel too big!
Message-ID: <1989Jul8.163659.20336@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 8 Jul 89 16:36:59 GMT
References: <24B521A8.8458@ateng.com>
Reply-To: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven List)
Organization: Transact Software, Inc.
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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.
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