From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 27 6: 3:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50DCD37BB87 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 06:03:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA85743; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 09:03:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200003271403.JAA85743@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <86n1nkvcoq.wl@tkc.att.ne.jp> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 09:03:03 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Motomichi Matsuzaki Subject: RE: Please test for 8G-OVER-Booting with /boot/loader Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Mar-00 Motomichi Matsuzaki wrote: > > Hi. > > I made a patch for /sys/boot/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c (attached). > This aimed to enable /boot/loader to manage 8G-OVER-Disks. > > 0. you need 8G-OVER-ENABLED BIOS for your motherboard > (check whether your BIOS has Int 13 Extended Interface) > > 1. teach boot0 using extended BIOS (See boot0cfg(8)) > > # boot0cfg -o packet YOUR-BOOT-DEVICE > > 2. install boot2 which have extended BIOS support > > # cd /sys/boot/i386/boot2; make B1FLAGS=0x80 clean install > > 3. patch to libi386 and install new /boot/loader > > # cd /sys/boot/i386/libi386/; patch # cd /sys/boot/i386/loader; make install Looks good to me, but I need to test it to make sure. I will also look at seeing if I can squeeze the int 13 extension installation check into boot1 and boot0 so that they will use packet mode automatically as well. I'll try and test this out in a day or two. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message