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?