From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Mar 25 15:24:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.interchange.ca (ns.interchange.ca [216.126.79.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C41937B71B for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:24:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michael@fastmail.ca) Received: by mail.interchange.ca (Fastmailer, from userid 555) id 07E3320DA; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:23:18 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <3ABE7DE5.0000ED.48828@frodo.searchcanada.ca> Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; boundary="------------Boundary-00=_TY0SCKICC5GNTT4D7TH0" To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Boot Loader Progress... From: "Michael Richards" X-Fastmail-IP: 24.43.130.237 Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:23:18 -0500 (EST) Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --------------Boundary-00=_TY0SCKICC5GNTT4D7TH0 Content-Type: Text/Plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 _________________________________________________________________ http://fastmail.ca/ - Fast Free Web Email for Canadians --------------Boundary-00=_TY0SCKICC5GNTT4D7TH0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message