Re: [PATCH] a.out support for multiboot and freebsd

[walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>]

Bean wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:29 PM, walt<wa1ter@myrealbox.com>  wrote:
>>   I made a small openbsd image to send you, but it works perfectly with
>>   your g2ldr so there's no point in sending it :o)  I think that problem
>>   is not worth your time or mine.
>
> BTW, how big is your ufs partition ? I have tested FreeBSD 6.3, NetBSD
> 4.0 and OpenBSD 4.2 in a 1G virtual disk, they all seems ok, perhaps
> if the disk is larger, the problem would occur.

Your instructions to load only the needed modules works great, thanks.

My openbsd partition is 7GB, but some other ufs partitions are bigger
than that.  I suspect that I have some disklabel conflict on that disk.
I have netbsd, openbsd, freebsd all installed on the same disk, each
with its own disklabel.  I don't know why it would cause that problem
in particular, though.

I'd like to know exactly how you create your virtual disks for testing.
I've been creating appropriate-size partitions on a USB stick and then
copying whatever files I need onto it.  Then I use dd to make an img
file to run in qemu.  It's a very slow process and I'd like to do it
better.  Any hints?

Thanks.