i386/loader compiled with NOFORTH

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 05:45:15PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 24-Apr-2003 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:21:17PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> >> 
> >> On 24-Apr-2003 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >> > On 5.x, loader(8) compiled with -DNOFORTH, results in
> >> > a system without a console.  This does not affect the
> >> > RELENG_4.
> >> > 
> >> > Can someone who knows this code please look into it?
> >> 
> >> No kernel console or no loader console?  The usual problem with
> >> no kernel console on 5.x is lack of device.hints.
> >> 
> > No kernel console.  The device.hints, it's there under /boot;
> > I only reinstalled loader(8) with -DNOFORTH, and this gave me
> > "no console" behavior.  Can you try it locally?
> 
> Since device.hints is read in by Forth code, I wouldn't be
> surprised if it didn't work.  When you break into the 10
> second countdown, do you have any hints set in the loader
> environment?
> 
Yes, figured this out by myself already.  I've ended up
uncommenting the "hints" line in GENERIC config, everything
is OK now, and bzip2(1) also works, modulo the memory
restrictions -- only level 1 bzipping works that requires
~250K of memory.

John, is there a way to fix btx/loader/whatever so that
heap memory is not limited to 640K?


Cheers,
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