Now boot-conf can also receive parameters to be passed to the kernel
being booted. The syntax is the same as in the boot command, so one
boots /kernel.OLD in single-user mode by typing:
boot-conf /kernel.OLD -s instead of
boot-conf -s /kernel.OLD
The syntax still supports use of directory instead of file name, so
boot-conf kernel.OLD -s
may be used to boot /boot/kernel.OLD/kernel.ko in single-user mode.
Notice that if one passes a flag to boot-conf, it will override the
flags set in .conf files, but only for that invocation. If the user
aborts the countdown and tries again without passing any flags, the
flags set in .conf files will be used.
Some factorization was done in the process of enhancing boot-conf,
as it has been growing steadly as features are getting added, becoming
too big for a Forth word. It still could do with more factorization,
as a matter of fact.
Override the builtin "boot" with something based on boot-conf. It will
behave exactly like boot-conf, but booting directly instead of going
through autoboot.
Since we are now pairing kernel and module set in the same directory,
this change to boot makes sense.
load the modules needed according to a file relating module names
(actually, _file_ names, not really modules -- the dependency
stuff is not exported to loader's UI) to PnP IDs.
But it still lacks a number of desired features, and it's too crude
for my tastes. But since I don't have time to work on it, it might
be preferable to make it available to those who might. It's not
installed by default, much less loaded. In fact, it wouldn't even
had a copyright message (who? me? assume responsibility for _this_?),
if the cvs commit hadn't aborted for lack of $FreeBSD$, and I decided
to just cut&paste the stuff from elsewhere.
Also, export the file_findfile() function. Again, this is taken from
work in progress but frozen for the time being. Since it works, I'd
rather commit and remove any uglyness later than hide it on my tree.
code into a more modular interface, with hidden vocabularies and
such. Remove the need to a lot of ugly initialization.
Also, add a few structure definitions, from stuff used on the C
part of loader. Some of this will disappear, and the crude structure
support will most likely be replaced by full-blown OOP support
already present on FICL, but not installed by default. But it was
getting increasingly inconvenient to keep this separate on my tree,
and I already lost lots of work once because of the hurdles, so
commit this.
Anyway, it makes support.4th more structured, and I'm not proceeding
with the work on it any time soon, unfortunately.
gets the name from the environment variable kernelname, which is set
when a kernel is loaded. For this reason, autoboot will _first_ try
to load a kernel, and only proceed with the wait prompt after that
succeeds. If it fails, it will abort immediately.
While I understand some may think this behavior undesirable, I think
it is, overall, the best thing to do, even if we do not consider the
aesthetic issue. Notice that anyone using the default loader.rc
already has the kernel loaded before autoboot.
On unload, unset kernelname.
Separate the code that tries to load a kernel from the list of options
to the function loadakernel(). It is used by both boot() and
autoboot().
to allow commonality between varying platforms. This is a step
towards parsing the diskless configuration information with MI code
inside the kernel.
Export the interface hardware address to the kernel, so that it is possible
to determine the boot interface with certainty.
Export the NFS filehandle for the root mount to the kernel, so that the
kernel does not need to perform a mount RPC call.
drives. Some IDE cards don't set propler information into BIOS work
are and their sector size were always recognized as 256 bytes/sector.
Pointed out by: jagarl@creator.club.ne.jp
BOOT_BTX_NOHANG, then BTX will be compiled with the appropriate flags so
that it reboots after a fault instead of hanging forever.
Requested by: ps
Approved by: rnordier
identifier to the DHCP server. Now you can check for this string
in your dhcp configuration to decide whether you will hand out a
lease to the client or not.
to 0x600 via a 'rep movsw'. Once that was done, %cx was zero, so we could
simply use 'movb' to update the lower byte of %cx in preparation for
zeroing out the fake partition entry used to boot to other drives via F5.
Well, in the new boot0, we don't actually relocate ourselves, instead it
is easier to create the fake partition entry first and then just use it to
get the BIOS to load all of boot0 into memory at 0x600. However, since we
aren't doing the relocate code anymore, we don't know that %cx == 0 when
we hit the 'movb' to setup %cx for clearning the fake partition entry.
Thus, if %ch != 0 when the BIOS started boot0, then it would end up zeroing
a lot more memory than just 8 words. The solution is to do a word move of
$8 into %cx.
Debugging help from: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
<stand.h>. Also, since bcache_strategy() used to not have a prototype,
arcdisk happily called bcache_strategy() with 6 parameters instead of 7,
leaving out the disk unit number, which is the 2nd parameter. Add in the
unit number to the bcache_strategy() call to fix this.
sector 0 of a disk and boot0.5 is the `boot selector' which starts
from address 0x400. The IPL loads boot0.5 and boot0.5 loads bootblock
of a slice.
The boot manager stuff was developed by me (kato) with Borland C++,
and then, translated into bcc in the ports collection by Nokubi-san.
After that, boot0 has been translated into gas with the .code16
directive by Takahashi-san (nyan) and boot0.5 has been rewritten in
gas by me.
Linux kernel image, and is designed to be dropped into a Linux system
and booted via LILO. Once booted, the user is greeted by the FreeBSD
loader. This still isn't quite complete, as the the root= specification
from LILO isn't currently passed to the loader yet.
- Autodetection and support of the BIOS EDD extensions to work around the
1024 cylinder limit on all but really ancient BIOS's.
- To work around some BIOS's which break when EDD is used with older drives,
we only attempt to use EDD if the cylinder is > 1023.
- Since this new code required more space than we had left, expand boot0 to
2 sectors (1024 bytes) in length.
- Add support for boot0 being multiple sectors using predefined constants.
If boot0 needs to be extended in the future, all that is required is
bumping the NUM_SECTORS constant.
- Now that we have more room to work with, add a few more fs type
descriptions while making others more verbose.
only doing so if loader.rc does not exist. This fixes the problem where
installworld doesn't update /boot/loader.4th, resulting in device.hints not
being loaded after updating past the config(8) changes, which resulted in
mcclock0 not being probed, and a nice kernel panic during boot.
use the BIOS Equipment List to determine how many hard drives are
installed and if the drive number we received in %dl is valid.
- Don't bother to disable interrupts when setting up the stack. The 8086
and beyond implicitly disable interrupts after an instruction that sets
%ss (for example, a pop or a mov) so that you can safely set %ss and %sp
in two consecutive instructions. An exception to this is the lss
instruction, which can set both registers simultaneously and thus doesn't
need this hack.
- Add support for EDD BIOS extensions to support booting off of hard drives
of nearly arbitrary length.
- Add in support for the EDD (Enhanced Disk Drive) BIOS extensions to
use LBA mode for accessing drives past cylinder 1024. This should allow
us to load a kernel from anywhere on a newer drive up to 2 TB. Part
of this came from the PR below.
PR: i386/13847
Submitted by: Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@fast.no>
theory, this should allow the K7V Athlon motherboard to boot ok with boot
virus protection enabled. However, I have no hardware to test this. It
shouldn't break anything though. :)
Prodded by: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>
no clue.
Set sourceid to 0 when booting, which is the correct setting for stdin.
Set sourceid to an arbitrary fd when include'ing, preserving and restoring
the previous sourceid. This is possibly broken(), as 0 is a valid fd. Maybe
we should +1 to this value.
This fixes the version problem widely reported.
is failing for everybody that I have spoken with that has tried it.
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
(root@outback.netplex.com.au, Tue Jun 13 23:26:49 PDT 2000)
Loader version 0.3+ required
Aborted!
start not found
Note that the 0.3+ message is from inside the arch-alpha block, not the
i386 block of code. And even then, 0.8 is higher than 0.3.
This prevents the rest of the loader.conf stuff working. :-/
Use Warner Losh's "hint" driver to decode ascii strings to fill the
resource table at boot time.
config(8) no longer generates an ioconf.c table - ie: the configuration
no longer has to be compiled into the kernel. You can reconfigure your
isa devices with the likes of this at loader(8) time:
set hint.ed.0.port=0x320
userconfig will be rewritten to use this style interface one day and will
move to /boot/userconfig.4th or something like that.
It is still possible to statically compile in a set of hints into a kernel
if you do not wish to use loader(8). See the "hints" directive in GENERIC
as an example.
All device wiring has been moved out of config(8). There is a set of
helper scripts (see i386/conf/gethints.pl, and the same for alpha and pc98)
that extract the 'at isa? port foo irq bar' from the old files and produces
a hints file. If you install this file as /boot/device.hints (and update
/boot/defaults/loader.conf - You can do a build/install in sys/boot) then
loader will load it automatically for you. You can also compile in the
hints directly with: hints "device.hints" as well.
There are a few things that I'm not too happy with yet. Under this scheme,
things like LINT would no longer be useful as "documentation" of settings.
I have renamed this file to 'NOTES' and stored the example hints strings
in it. However... this is not something that config(8) understands, so
there is a script that extracts the build-specific data from the
documentation file (NOTES) to produce a LINT that can be config'ed and
built. A stack of man4 pages will need updating. :-/
Also, since there is no longer a difference between 'device' and
'pseudo-device' I collapsed the two together, and the resulting 'device'
takes a 'number of units' for devices that still have it statically
allocated. eg: 'device fe 4' will compile the fe driver with NFE set
to 4. You can then set hints for 4 units (0 - 3). Also note that
'device fe0' will be interpreted as "zero units of 'fe'" which would be
bad, so there is a config warning for this. This is only needed for
old drivers that still have static limits on numbers of units.
All the statically limited drivers that I could find were marked.
Please exercise EXTREME CAUTION when transitioning!
Moral support by: phk, msmith, dfr, asmodai, imp, and others
was found or not. Fix it's usage. Alas, it caused no problem before,
besides leaving garbage in the stack, because refill, used by [if]
[else] [then], was broken.
a parameter and dtrt.
Also, make boot-conf always unload first. There wasn't really any
point in not doing this, as the kernel _has_ to be loaded before
any other modules.
Tested by: dwhite
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.
be booted. Due to a bug, this wasn't happening.
There is still a lesser bug in that the loader decides which file to boot
after the 10sec count down. This means the bootfile listed in the count
down in is wrong in the case where the loader will boot /kernel.old.
FICL. bootforth is now live on the Alpha!
**BEWARE** - you *MUST* build and install a current libstand or you will
most likely get zfree() panics at loader startup.
We should now be able to set up the loader.conf stuff on the Alpha too.
/boot/loader (even though it is 100% dormant in the Alpha version),
then the loader panics with a zfree error:Loading /boot/loader.test
*** keyboard not plugged in...
Console: SRM firmware console
panic: zfree(0x2003cb58,4096): wild pointer
versus the exact same code but without FICL linked in:
Loading /boot/loader
Console: SRM firmware console
VMS PAL rev: 0x1000600010114
OSF PAL rev: 0x1000600020116
Switch to OSF PAL code succeeded.
FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot, Revision 0.1
This is almost certainly an alpha infrastructure bug, not a FICL
problem. It's probably the same thing that made FICL fail for no
apparent reason on the Alpha.
code instead of using 32-bit code and having to just "know" that it's
really 16-bit instructions when things run. This also allows the code
to use fewer macros and more actual assembly statements, which eases
maintenance. Unfortunately, due to as(1) brokenness, we still use m4
macros for all 16-bit addresses, and all short jumps (i.e., 8-bit
relative addresses in the jump instruction) must be wrapped in .code32
directives to avoid useless bloat by as(1). This also fixes a few
problems that were preventing boot0 from compiling with the latest
and greatest version of as(1).
below). This did not work previously because interrupts were
disabled when PXE calls were being made, and they must be enabled.
This should also allow us to be compliant with all newer PXE rom's
from Intel.
For PXE 0.99, this has been tested using the Intel N440BX motherboard
and I am confident it will work on the Intel L440GX motherboard.
Lots of help/information from: jhb, peter
I would like to thank Michael Johnston <michael.johnston@intel.com>,
Mike Henry <mike.henry@intel.com>, and all the other PXE developers
at Intel for their help, and information in helping solve this
problem.
from user mode. Don't disable interrupts when returning from vm86 mode
to user mode either. Now, we only disable interrupts before calling a
hardware interrupt handler, which is the only time we _should_ be
disabling interrupts.
Because of this, err, feature, any routine that one called in vm86 mode
had to re-enable interrupts by setting the interrupt flag or interrupts
would remain disabled even after the routine returned. For example, I
have a simple debugging routine that uses a vm86 mode function to dump
any arbitrary memory word that I use to read the BIOS timer or any other
memory location. This function does 1 load instruction from memory and
then returns. Since it didn't re-enable interrupts, the first time I
called it to read the BIOS timer, it disabled interrupts. This also
affected the PXE bootstrap as it needs interrupts enabled while it is
processing. This patch fixes both of those situations so that those
functions do not worry about having to enable interrupts. Hardware
interrupt handlers worked fine with the old code because they always
enable interrupts as part of their routine.
If you have any problems with the loader after this commit, please
let me know. I'd like to MFC it in a week or two since PXE support
needs it.
Noticed by: ps, Michael Johnston <michael.johnston@intel.com>
- Add support for using the PCI BIOS functions for configuration space
accesses, and make this the default.
- Make PNPBIOS the default (obsoletes the PNPBIOS config option).
- Add two new boot-time tunables to disable each of the above.
