Add code to the boot blocks to allow the user to place default boot strings
on block 1 of the disk (2nd block), should the correct magic numbers be present.
If the correct options are used it will 'delete' the name used from block1,
thereby assuring that if the boot fails it won't be stuck in an infinite loop.
the boot strings are set by the utility "nextboot"
(not yet checked in, but being tested.)
By default these changes should have no effect on existing installations
and if compiled without the NAMEBLOCK option should be essentially identical
to the old ones.
hd essentially wired the FreeBSD drive number to 0 without changing
the BIOS drive number. Now the numbers can be specified independently.
Replaced the BOOT_HD compile time flag with with BOOT_HD_BIAS. Defining
the new flag as 1 should give the same behaviour as defining the old
flag as anything. I haven't tested defining these flags.
is defined and FORCE_COMCONSOLE isn't defined.
Don't compile any keyboard probing code if PROBE_KEYBOARD isn't defined.
Makefile:
Removed -I paths. They weren't used, and the one to /sys hasn't worked
since the source directory was moved down one level.
counter instead of the BIOS time call to save space.
Reworked the anti-noise timeout to avoid duplicating code. The timeout
in the outer loop is now restarted after every noise timeout, so it is
now possible for the total timeout to be infinite; previously, the maximum
total timeout was 150000 seconds.
must have limit 0xffff and attribute G = 0 (byte granularity) as well
as other properties that they already had (see e.g., the Intel i486
manual section 22.5). Not restoring them broke Ctrl-Alt-Del in the
bootstrap for my ASUS P55TP4XE system, probably because the Award BIOS
does anti-tracing stuff involving inaccessible %esp's.
asm.S:
Don't use lret in prot_to_real(). This reduces the risk of using an
incompletely intialized stack segment and saves space.
Submitted by: "K.Higashino" <a00303@cc.hc.keio.ac.jp> (on 13 Jan 1995!)
reworked by me
boot to display "Booting the kernelel...done" instead of "Booting
the kernel".
Removed save and restore of BIOS memory. kzipped kernels haven't
ever overlaid the BIOS memory.
ignore and set it to 18 sectors/track. This allows FreeBSD to boot with
2.88MB floppies which are used in older ThinkPads.
Submitted by: Random Net person whose name I lost
Claim the major numbers (before sombedoy else jumps in again and
claims the slots for his foocd driver :-), install all the hooks that
are required.
While i've been at this, i've cleaned up some of the routines at the
end of i386/conf.c; all the importers of the latest CDROM drivers
forgot to fill in the appropriate information. The `ata' driver
(vapourware?) does only occupy a slot in the bdevsw[] array, btw.
The actual import of the code does require a minor change in the SCSI
subsystem, and i want to have this reviewed by Peter first, so it will
be deferred for some days. The driver is already working for me
though.
Submitted by: akiyama@kme.mei.co.jp (Shunsuke Akiyama)
user has entered a bogus kernel name in the first place).
Also fix the broken #ifdef FORCE_COMCONSOLE, it has been disabled by
accident. (NB: the keyboard probe remains disabled however.)
Few cosmetic fixes (declare functions to be void instead of int),
while i've been at this.
Pointed out by: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schneider), for the init bug
serial_putchar() always hung if it was called and the serial port existed,
so booting with -h hung when the above bug was fixed. Previously, setting
-h did nothing but -h was sometimes the default due to the stack garbage
bug.
Submitted by: DI. Christian Gusenbauer <cg@scotty.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
The `howto' arg to boot() was not supplied, so it was stack garbage (actually
the return address in the boot program). I didn't use the submitted fix.
