Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:25:32 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Brancato <funnyguy@digitalsmackdown.net> To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: boot floppy problems... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0201171724390.5037-100000@dosmonos> In-Reply-To: <200201171940.aa68346@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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no problem. keep up the good work. mike On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Ian Dowse wrote: > In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0201170805060.3093-100000@dosmonos>, Mike Brancato wr > ites: > >oh, well. They say something along the lines of > >"Disk error: lba is 0x9 (should be 0x10)" > >or similar. then it trys to boot the kernel twice using the loader, but > >fails with the path 0:fd(0,a)/kernel > > Hmm, the error is actually "Disk error 0x9 (lba=0x10)". I think > this is my fault. Error 9 is "data boundary error (attempted DMA > across 64K boundary or >80h sectors)", so by changing the buffers > to being static in revision 1.35 of boot2.c, I broke the guarantee > that single transfers don't cross a 64k boundary, which is important > for floppies :-( I'll fix this shortly. Thanks for pointing out the > problem! > > Ian > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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