From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 1 1:57:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freja.webgiro.com (freja.webgiro.com [212.209.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C81A0150E1 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 01:57:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D186418D0; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 10:58:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0AC349D3; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 10:58:24 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 10:58:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: fretre Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about boot code In-Reply-To: <000901beabff$acc11de0$25353f0a@k> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, fretre wrote: > 1. I try to learn something about boot code with version 3.0. I > wander whether I can begin with biosboot?(/usr/src/sys/i386/ > boot/biosboot) The 3.0 boot code is located in /usr/src/sys/boot > 2. The initialized data will be loaded into memory after kernel > text during boot stage. And where is the file that the > initialized data is defined in? and > 3. What's the file name? If you mean the 'initialized kernel data', then it's stored in the file /kernel itself (or whatever file you boot from) in section '.data' of the ELF file. Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message