Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:23:18 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael Richards" <michael@fastmail.ca> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Boot Loader Progress... Message-ID: <3ABE7DE5.0000ED.48828@frodo.searchcanada.ca>
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Hi.
Just wanted to report a small amount of progress on the boot loader
issues for my AS1200. I'm working with a hacked up boot loader that
has debugging added to it so I can see where the loader is failing.
I have been taking my compiled version of the boot loader and copying
it onto a boot floppy and booting from that. Here is what I found so
far...
The loader fails when it calls the "include" function to load the
file: /boot/loader.rc
I originally thought it was a problem with reading the data, but now
I believe the call to "open" in the include function in
common/interp.c is never returning. I am going to descent into the
depths of libstand to insert debugging and see if I can locate the
exact point of failure.
Does anyone have documentation on how to interface with the alpha
bios to perform low level things such as reading blocks of data? I
would like to verify that calls are being made properly.
Finally, assuming that I do get this problem fixed, is there anyone
specifically that I should be sending patches to?
-Michael
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