From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 3 15:29:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA02528 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 15:29:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA02523 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 15:29:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA11550; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 15:26:57 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199607032226.PAA11550@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: New (BIOS) bootblock ?feature? To: julian@ref.tfs.com (JULIAN Elischer) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 15:26:57 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607032202.PAA02238@ref.tfs.com> from "JULIAN Elischer" at Jul 3, 96 03:02:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > do we want to integrate this? > > > Since I originally ported the bootblocks to freeBSD, I haven't done much > > > with them.. This is my first real return to the area.. > > > > > > I have been askled to make the following patches to the bootblocks, > > > together with a user-level program to control it...... > > > > > > The patches are now complete and working, so I want to know if the gang > > > thinks I should integrate them to our sources or whether my client should > > > just keep them separate.. > > > > > > Programmable one-time bootstring.. (or many time) > > > > How does this interact with erich@uruk.org's "multiboot" proposed > > standard and code? > > can you give me a pointer? http://www.uruk.org/grub/boot-proposal.html He recently released code in several news groups... he's the Intel employee working with the SMP project. > > It sounds like a step forward, and any step forward should be > > integrated (IMO). It would certaily solve that Italian PC Week > > reviewer's boot problems... > > which were? IDE controller 1 master disk OS-BS slave controller 2 master disk FreeBSD slave He gets "can't mount root" because FreeBSD tries to mount root from wd1, but the root is actually on wd2. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.