Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 16:40:03 -0500 (EST) From: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> To: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Loader question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981107163312.6140H-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> In-Reply-To: <199811070811.KAA07985@ceia.nordier.com>
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On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Robert Nordier wrote: > I have substantially revised boot1 and should be committing this > within the next day or two. Until now, we've been making use of > a new set of BIOS extended disk services, but it has become painfully > evident that a few BIOSes have problems with this approach, and they > really weren't much of a win, anyway. When do you expect to commit your changes. I bagan hacking on the stage 1 boot block a few days ago to try and make it behave properly when using a serial console. The -current ones end up with garbage in the boot prompt after it reads a boot.config with just a '-h' in it. After it switches to the serial console, I have to backspace and type 'kernel', and it boots just fine. If boot.config is empty, it boots fine but of course, I don't get a chance to boot an alternate kernel since it doesn't switch to the serial console until the kernel starts probing. If you need a tester for the serial functionality, I'm willing. I have 6 rackmounted machines with serial consoles and I will be fixing this on my own if it isn't already fixed. Also, are the boot blocks going to be built using elf or aout in the long run? I'm just getting into -current and I figired out that I need tom compile them as aout or they don't fit. cheers, Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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