From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!esquire!nrh
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Needed: Better boot for 2.8BSD - (nf)
Article-I.D.: esquire.390
Posted: Fri Sep  3 15:02:29 1982
Received: Sun Sep  5 05:00:22 1982

#N:esquire:900001:000:492
esquire!nrh    Sep  3 14:59:00 1982

I need a better boot (or "1kboot") program for 2.8 BSD.
The current bootstrapping scheme in 2.8 BSD is that the boot
block runs a program called 1kboot, and then 1kboot, running
in the high 8k of kernel instruction space, loads in unix.

This means that unix I-space cannot be bigger than 56K,
because if unix were bigger, it would overlay the boot program that
is loading unix in.
It seems a shame to "waste" 8k of instruction space.  Does anyone
have a boot program that is not so limited?