Commit Graph

191 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Robert Nordier
f841485278 Fill in bi_bios_geom[] in the bootinfo structure passed to the kernel.
This should resolve the problem raised in PR 12315, and incidentally
makes it easier to determine what geometry the BIOS is actually using
(by way of boot -v and dmesg).
1999-06-21 18:27:02 +00:00
Robert Nordier
fc2ff140c2 Provide for enabling/disabling each slice individually. 1999-06-19 21:40:55 +00:00
Robert Nordier
bc53095dd4 Fix use of e_phoff in place of e_phnum. 1999-06-19 20:50:38 +00:00
Robert Nordier
68aadbb9c9 Correct and clarify some comments. 1999-06-19 20:40:32 +00:00
Robert Nordier
97a62e386d Change active flag handling; sanity check passed drive number; pass
partition pointer to bootstrap; optimise away 10 bytes; cosmetics.
1999-06-18 21:49:18 +00:00
Guy Helmer
3d8993c197 Modify the boot loader to recognize the -C flag and pass the RB_CDROM
flag to the kernel to mount a CDROM as the root filesystem.  Alternatively,
the boot_cdrom env var can be set.

As Mike Smith noted, "-C is the "wrong" way to do this", but this is
an acceptable stopgap in lieu of a better way.

PR:		bin/11884
Reviewed by:	msmith@freebsd.org
1999-06-04 03:18:28 +00:00
Robert Nordier
c9091105f3 Activate mbr. 1999-05-24 22:44:32 +00:00
Robert Nordier
9292eec80d Add mbr: a standard master boot record intended to replace a couple
that are presently embedded in the fdisk and sysinstall code.
1999-05-24 22:36:24 +00:00
Robert Nordier
32ea10b4fc Fix a reference to the mysterious Mike Smisth. 1999-05-22 13:18:28 +00:00
Robert Nordier
e2c9098e4f Drop some non-existent commented-out targets. 1999-05-18 22:10:05 +00:00
John Birrell
957055c6a9 Found the needle in the haystack!
Use colons instead of semi-colons in the default init_path to behave like
UNIX instead of DOS.

Suggested by: bde
Reminded by: des (with no hint as to *which* man page).
1999-05-11 11:20:13 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
e539c67bbb Correct typos.
PR:		docs/11445
Submitted by:	Kazuo Horikawa <horikawa@jp.freebsd.org>
1999-05-03 08:32:45 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
4093b9aa2e Make man page reflect reality on parsing rules. Now I know Jordan
never read this man page... :-)
1999-04-25 21:41:09 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
cf69fad236 Move loader.conf.5, while it is still in it's first revision. 1999-04-24 17:49:47 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
2de24e689e Add loader.4th man page (worst man page I ever wrote -- reviews
are welcomed). Correct a nasty bug in loader.4th before anyone
notices, add a couple of features.
1999-04-24 17:25:35 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
5f967b24fc Make the location of init(8) tunable at boot time. 1999-04-20 21:15:13 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
5d9a0e5b26 Installs a default loader.rc if none exists. Document loader.conf. 1999-04-18 09:21:12 +00:00
Robert Nordier
0e5731f9f4 Fix damage introduced in previous commit. 1999-04-05 07:36:30 +00:00
Robert Nordier
bf0eae60c5 Optimize better for space.
Thanks to: jdp
1999-04-05 07:24:51 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
df5ee53868 Remove the string ">>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT". I need to reduce the size of
boot2 by 16 bytes.  I expect this to be temperary until the boot2 authors
can do the proper fix.
1999-04-04 21:15:41 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
9859e703f6 Make <DEL> an alternative rubout character for command input; many
serial terminals use this as their default rubout key.
1999-03-31 08:28:42 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
76bd51f729 Avoid copying m_args if none exists. (Perhaps this is a better solution,
Doug?)
1999-03-18 14:36:22 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
276dcca185 Version bump: kvm & dictionary size. 1999-03-17 23:05:46 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
306a07af57 The man page, version 0.1. 1999-03-15 08:52:23 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
f847f7558c Install new loader.rc stuff. 1999-03-10 03:34:14 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
445a035707 Add MODINFO_ARGS, parameters passed to a module at load time.
VS: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
1999-03-08 11:05:52 +00:00
Robert Nordier
a3c69bbcf8 Save option, rather than slice, selected. This permits unattended
booting from other than drive 0, as the F5 keypress is saved and
"replayed."

Requested (some time ago) by: archie
1999-03-01 02:42:47 +00:00
Robert Nordier
5052aa25a1 Implement "setdrv" option 1999-02-26 14:51:14 +00:00
Robert Nordier
401d37631a Emulate a V86 "movl %cr0,%eax" instruction.
Feedback and testing: Kurt Hopfensperger <kjhmdjd@ix.netcom.com>
1999-02-25 16:27:41 +00:00
Mike Smith
bf18286593 Don't try protecting page 0; it seems that BIOS writers now feel it's
appropriate to check for Windows95 by polling for state in low
memory, with fatal results.

Submitted by:	rnordier@freebsd.org
1999-02-24 01:37:23 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
b9305c6c70 Bumb up loader's version.
Reviewed by:	Michael Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
1999-02-08 04:14:31 +00:00
Robert Nordier
391911b768 Check size of partition before using it. 1999-01-29 03:36:42 +00:00
Robert Nordier
ab19eb8230 Fix a couple of further bugs: missing argument to sprintf() and
"==" used for "=".
1999-01-25 23:07:02 +00:00
Mike Smith
84ef5a8f66 Bleh. Missing 'unit =' doesn't help legacy num_ide_disks code.
PR:		bin/9651
Submitted by:	"Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
1999-01-24 06:03:44 +00:00
Mike Smith
1c2587457f Document root_disk_unit 1999-01-24 00:12:17 +00:00
Mike Smith
c679ae39a8 biosdisk.c
Implement a new variable 'root_disk_unit' which supersedes
	'num_ide_disks' and makes it possible to explicitly set the
	root device unit number regardless of type considerations.

bootinfo.c
	If we can't calculate a dev_t for the root disk, complain and
	don't proceed to boot with an invalid boot device.
1999-01-24 00:12:04 +00:00
Mike Smith
5d3d992565 Fill in the bi_bios_dev field in the bootinfo struct; the loader doesn't
guess this value well in anything other than the simplest of situations.
1999-01-24 00:10:10 +00:00
Robert Nordier
d0a4f5ea63 Fix read error not being detected. 1999-01-22 18:32:52 +00:00
Robert Nordier
d7478bf0df Push version numbers up to 1.00. This is just intended to reflect
that the BTX code can be regarded as stable: there are no associated
code changes.

Suggested by: obrien
1999-01-22 13:07:17 +00:00
Mike Smith
378972ac6b Transition from using Perl to using awk for our text-manipulation
needs.  This removes the dependancy on Perl for the generation of the
loader, allowing the world to be built on a perl-free system.

Submitted by:	Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz>
1999-01-18 19:05:27 +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
Robert Nordier
726c0943c0 Drop boot.help support. 1999-01-11 11:36:03 +00:00
Mike Smith
ba536e2ae8 Preserve the previous loader as loader.old.
Note no matching commit for the Alpha, as the alpha boot0 stage does
not have the ability to prompt for user input.

PR:		kern/9406
Submitted by:	 "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
1999-01-11 05:52:28 +00:00
Mike Smith
f414995e5c Disable kzipping the loader; it seems to be breaking the aout-to-elf build 1999-01-10 20:20:27 +00:00
Steve Price
24d156f499 Remove redundant line of code.
PR:		9364
Submitted by:	Daniel C. Sobral <dcs@newsguy.com>
1999-01-10 18:22:23 +00:00
Robert Nordier
c03fa7f977 Use etc/make.conf settings for serial port and speed.
Submitted by: rvb
Reviewed by: bde
1999-01-10 14:48:05 +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
Mike Smith
244cf84b1e Explicitly look for kzip in /usr/bin, again this is a stopgap, to avoid
making kzip a build tool.
1999-01-09 20:14:46 +00:00
Mike Smith
82bbbb8c73 kzip the loader, this shrinks it to about 60% of its original size.
Note that this is a stopgap with dependancies on the a.out tools.
1999-01-09 02:38:40 +00:00
Mike Smith
ee5799c4ee Extend bd_print() so that it displays slices and partitions on disks. 1999-01-09 02:36:19 +00:00