Commit Graph

15 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
John Baldwin
54ff3ae038 Doh. The disklabel is not 0x200 bytes of zeros, but it is 0x200 bytes long. 2000-07-06 00:29:40 +00:00
John Baldwin
a6bef20793 Clarify the comments in here a bit. The first sector of boot2 is not just
zeros, it is actually the disklabel itself.  boot2.ldr is simply a
placeholder in the boot2 binary.
2000-07-06 00:22:50 +00:00
John Baldwin
cbf3fb883e Add in support for EDD to support large disks via LBA. This uses a
method similar to that of the loader to avoid potentially breaking older
drives in that we only use EDD if the desired cylinder is > 1023.
2000-06-26 22:57:16 +00:00
John Baldwin
35bdac5bbd Comment this bad boy. Hopefully the next person that comes along won't
have to spend a few hours reading the code to figure all this out.
2000-06-19 22:50:46 +00:00
John Baldwin
638bac9fc0 Clean up all of the 16-bit assembly code in the x86 bootstrap to work
with the new binutils.  Now that we have a decent assembler, all the old
m4 macros are no longer needed.  Instead, straight assembly can be used
since as(1) now understands 16-bit addressing, branches, etc.  Also,
several bugs have been fixed in as(1), allowing boot0.s to be further
cleaned up.
2000-05-23 12:18:49 +00:00
Peter Wemm
c3aac50f28 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
Robert Nordier
50d57a133e Reintroduce LBA (cyl > 1023) support in the bootblocks, enabled by
means of a build option.
1999-07-20 01:19:23 +00:00
Robert Nordier
05c7fdda18 In the event of a disk error, boot2 is expecting an error
code to be returned: give it one
1999-01-13 23:30:07 +00:00
Peter Wemm
c03b24b2d8 Damn, I thought I had committed this already, but it seems not.
Move the relocated boot1 and arg transfer space from 0x600/0x800 to
0x700/0x900.  In theory this should make no difference, apart from the fact
that Buslogic controllers happen to use a few bytes at 0x600 for some sort
of scratch space for it's int 0x13 hook (!!!), causing the machine to crash
badly when the boot2 code makes it's callbacks into boot1 for disk IO.

Submitted by:	Robert Nordier <rnordier@freebsd.org>
1999-01-10 13:29:52 +00:00
Robert Nordier
21ffb6774a Revise error messages. 1998-11-11 08:56:17 +00:00
Robert Nordier
9888bdcd29 boot1: Eliminate EDD detection and optional use of disk packet
interface.  Do some general consistency fixes and space optimizations.
Use of some freed-up space to defend against possible BIOS misfeatures.

boot2: Revise disk read interface to provide for boot1 changes.  Free
up space for this.
1998-11-08 15:36:35 +00:00
Robert Nordier
548bf5dd17 Make use of BIOS int 0x13 extensions configurable, and disabled
by default.
1998-11-05 20:52:25 +00:00
Robert Nordier
9244e1a412 Avoid interruptions while talking to keyboard controller. 1998-10-27 20:19:24 +00:00
Robert Nordier
fd4afc6487 Change to a 15-sector boot2.
Refine slice-handling.
1998-10-13 21:35:42 +00:00
Robert Nordier
4d8eda2252 New boot blocks: support for /boot/loader; a.out & ELF; cyl > 1023;
multiple 0xa5 slices; etc.
1998-10-12 21:16:26 +00:00