flag rather than explicitly halting if a lookup failed.
- Add a loop around the call to lookup() to traverse an array of
nul-terminated strings for possible paths to the boot loader. A double
nul character denotes the end of the list.
- Add a new message to say that the boot failed if all of the path lookups
for a boot loader file failed.
- Add '/boot/loader' as a second boot path. If you build an ISO using
risky options to mkisofs such as -U then the loader will be called
'/boot/loader' rather than '/BOOT/LOADER;0'. This allows cdboot to work
with such risky ISO images.
- Bump version to 1.2 to denote added functionality.
The basic idea as well as some of the code were provided by the submitter,
but I added some extra code to use a loop rather than hard-code just 2
possible paths.
PR: misc/43543
Submitted by: kientzle
MFC after: 1 week
- Move loader relocation up to 0x1C00000. This is in line with OSX bootx,
and allows more space for boot-time modules/ramdisks without conflicting
with OpenFirmware's use of RAM
different kernel to boot with kernel="NAME" would load the kernel and
loader.conf-selected modules from /boot/NAME, but it would not change
module_path. So, for instance, the automatically loaded acpi.ko would come
from /boot/kernel/acpi.ko, *always*.
Mind you, this happened for unassisted boot. If you interrupted, typed
"unload" and then "boot NAME", it would Do The Right Thing.
The source of the problem is the double initialization with beastie's
loader.rc. One would happen inside "start", and would load the kernel. The
next one would happen later in the loader.rc script, resetting module_path.
Because module_path is set to the Right Value by the functions in support.4th
that actually load the kernel, when beastie.4th proceeded to boot
module_path would remain wrong, as the kernel was already loaded.
This can be corrected by removing either initialization, and also by changing
the command used by beastie.4th from "boot" to "boot-conf", which makes sure
you use the right kernel and modules.
I chose to remove the second initialization, since this let you interrupt
(or confirm) boot before beastie even comes up. I avoid also doing the
boot-conf change because that would simply cause the kernel and modules to
be loaded twice (in fact, that was my original patch, until, in writing this
very commit message, I saw the error of my ways).
This commit changes the semantics of module loading when using the beastie
menu. Now it does what one would expect it to, but not what it was actually
doing, so something may break for unusual setups depending on broken
behavior. As our japanese friends so nicely put it, shikata ga nakatta. :-)
Approved by: re (scottl)
While we end up the same place, we end up with two different CS register
values after the jump and 0xf000 is compatible with the hardware reset
value.
This makes a difference if the BIOS does a near jump before a far jump.
Detective work and patch by: Adrian Steinmann <ast@marabu.ch>
value as reserved for internal use in boot blocks, because RB_PAUSE
broke binary compatibility by usurping the RB_DUAL flag. Probably no
one except me has boot blocks for which this matters, since most boot
blocks based on biosboot including pc98's boot2 can't boot elf kernels,
and /boot/loader doesn't properly pass flags set by the previous stage.
reboot.h:
Also mark the historical RB_PROBEKBD flag (0x80000) as reserved for
internal use in boot blocks.
boot2.c:
Added comments to inhibit usurping of other flags.
Approved by: guido, imp
MFC after: 1 week
This ensures that uart gets a higher console priority than syscons when
a serial console is being used. Testing against the "console" environment
variable doesn't make sense since we only have one loader console driver.
commit broke the world because it depended on namespace pollution that
was only in my version of <machine/bootinfo.h>. The include was removed
in rev.1.63 after the last reference to it went away in rev.1.61.
comment about this flag in rev.1.61. It is not historical like the
comment said; it is the flag that says that most of what is laboriously
put in the bootinfo struct is actually there. Newer kernels were
bootable by even the broken boot2 without losing anything except the
symbol table, but older kernels need at least the memory sizes.
Restoring the "|" with RB_BOOTINFO that was lost in rev.1.43 costs 5
bytes. The fix can be done in only 4 bytes by fixing some code that
was removed in rev.1.61 (put RB_BOOTINFO back in in the initial value
of "opts" and fix RBX_MASK to not clobber it.)
the root path. This is reported to make non-PXE netbooting, such as
is used on sparc64 systems, work correctly when the TFTP server is
not the same as the root server.
PR: kern/57328
Submitted by: Per Kristian Hove <Per.Hove@math.ntnu.no>
boot time. Instead, read it a sector at a time. While this sounds
like a significant slowdown, I've not been able to measure any
signficant difference.
Submitted by: luigi
Reviewed by: jhb, sam (both a while ago)
MFC After: 3 days
EFI file system. When booting from a CD and there's already an EFI
system partition on the disk, setting the current device to unit 0
will select the harddisk. This invariably breaks installing FreeBSD
when other operating systems have been installed before.
We obviously want to do the same when we're booting over the network.
Maybe later.
Based on a patch (from memory) from: arun
