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
bsd.lib.mk and thus broke the build since AFLAGS were not taken
into considered anymore, as bsd.lib.mk currently has wrong .s.o
rule that uses cc(1) instead of as(1).
Revision 1.14 reverted to using as(1), and revision 1.15 brought
AFLAGS back to the business, but revision 1.14 also broke "make
clean".
To fix this, but not break anything that was fixed in revisions
1.13-1.15, we revert mostly to revision 1.13 except for switching
back to using bsd.prog.mk. This gives us back the default .s.o
rule from sys.mk that uses as(1), and fixes "make clean" by
restoring the full contents of OBJS.
Also fixed LDFLAGS.
the terminating '\0'. Since the initialisation of rootpath in
libstand/bootp.c may copy junk into the rest of the buffer, it was
possible for the code to find a ':' after the '\0' and do the wrong
thing.
Reviewed by: ps
MFC after: 1 week
