Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> 
>  The 1st stage loader just resets the prom before the kernel load.

And the 1st stage loader would be?  mbr? biosboot? /boot?  lilo?
winxp boot loader?  Specifics make a difference.

>  Can anyone else confirm this?  You don't even need to elfrdsetroot(8) to 
>  test.  Just compile bsd.rd with MINIROOTSIZE=16384.  I've been using 32768 
>  on my 4.0 systems for the bsd-appliance project.

Could well be.  You may be overwriting a 16MB hole...


>  I've tested it on an AMD Athalon, an AMD Geode, and a VMWare machine.

And no information about the machines beyond that?  No dmesg, no information
from the boot prompt (machine memory would be nice to have).  Grr...

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