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From: knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen)
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Subject: Boot Missing 15 Pages SOLVED
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Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 11:45:24 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 29 11:45:24 1986
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Thanks to garfield!caveh (Jilali at Memorial U of Newfoundland),
the missing 15 pages have been accounted for.
He suggested that the kernel (os9, os9p2, boot, init)
should NOT be listed to your os9gen command, nor should
these modules even appear in an "ident -s os9boot"
afterwards.  Os9gen automatically sticks these 4 modules
onto the last track on your disk, and gets them straight from
RAM (they must be there or you wouldn't be alive, right?).

I tried his suggestion, and wow!  170 pages free without
printer or pipes.  Putting back the printer only cost 1 page.

No, the redundant modules don't show up twice in MDIR;
they just invisibly take up space.

So be warned next time you make a boot.  I vaguely recall
hearing this warning before, maybe in Puckett's big book.
	mike k
PS: garfield!caveh also sent me the best response on
disk controllers and track stepping.  May his host always
be up and running!  Thanks!