From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 6 14:50: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (s206m1.whistle.com [207.76.206.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CFF37B423; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 14:50:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko@whistle.com) Received: from whistle.com (crab.whistle.com [207.76.205.112]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA35667; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 14:43:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA76607; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 14:43:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <200104062143.OAA76607@whistle.com> Subject: Re: Fix for CDROM boot for IBM PC desktops In-Reply-To: from John Baldwin at "Apr 6, 2001 02:13:30 pm" To: John Baldwin Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 14:43:44 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Doug Ambrisko , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, dhw@whistle.com, mark@whistle.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (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 John Baldwin writes: | Well, think of boot1 as a really small device driver and xread as a syscall. | The offset is a magic number. I'd prefer not to, but whatever. | The maintainer for this stuff is Robert Nordier (rnordier@) and he'll need to | sign off on it. Any chance you could figuratively kick the head of whoever at | IBM did this up around their ears for assuming all the world is DOS? :) I'll send a note to him. I haven't heard anything from him for a long time. Like right, we can't get info out of "ourselves". However I have some insight into the IBM desktop BIOS not that I can change it though. It looks like if we just do the first 25 bytes or so then we are safe. All I can do is make FreeBSD work nicely on IBM machines since there is an incentive to make that happen here. Also we can't change the X number of machines that are out there. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message