From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 17 5: 1:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from siri.nordier.com (c2-dbn-86.dial-up.net [196.34.155.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B375937B401 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 05:01:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by siri.nordier.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) id PAA11182; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 15:03:17 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <200102171303.PAA11182@siri.nordier.com> Subject: Re: boot1 changes and etherboot support In-Reply-To: <200102170509.f1H59cA08731@iguana.aciri.org> from Luigi Rizzo at "Feb 16, 2001 9: 9:33 pm" To: rizzo@aciri.org (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 15:03:17 +0200 (SAST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Luigi Rizzo wrote: > I have spent some time trying to put etherboot[1] code onto the > hard disk so that it can be selected using the FreeBSD boot > manager. I ended up doing it with a small amt of modifications > to the "boot1" code, for which a patch is attached. > > Maybe it could be interesting in applying this patch to the standard > boot1 code (apart for the PRT_BSD change, which should be unmodified). The size of the boot1 code must be <= 446 bytes. The code already gets customised a lot, for example, in embedded work and space needs to be left to allow for that. So I wouldn't personally be in favour of adding this to the standard boot1. -- Robert Nordier rnordier@nordier.com // Le monde est plein de fous, et qui n'en veut pas voir rnordier@FreeBSD.org // Doit se tenir tout seul, et casser son miroir. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message