On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, rpjday wrote: > > not to flog this or anything (ok, so i'm flogging this), we've > almost clarified the mystery about the "loader" executable, except > for: > > 1) "loader-local" is apparently the loader executable that goes onto > the boot.img floppy image. but, even stripped, it's *still* a tad > larger than the one on boot.img. so there's still a bit of a > mystery here. why the remaining difference in size? (perhaps > something as simple as building for i386 vs i686??) > > 2) i can see there are three versions of loader: loader-local, > loader-network and loader-pcmcia, all of which are built > automatically from the spec file. but you can also "make > loader", which creates a "loader" executable (the very one > that was causing so much confusion). so what's the story > behind this one? how does it differ from the three specific > loaders already built? hmmmm ... from looking at the Makefile, it *appears* that the generic loader executable is capable of being both a local loader and network loader. did i get that right? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Eno River Technologies, Chapel Hill NC Unix, Linux and Open Source corporate training
