From owner-freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 5 22:15:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 502B8106567F; Tue, 5 May 2009 22:15:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luigi@onelab2.iet.unipi.it) Received: from onelab2.iet.unipi.it (onelab2.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CFBB8FC1B; Tue, 5 May 2009 22:15:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luigi@onelab2.iet.unipi.it) Received: by onelab2.iet.unipi.it (Postfix, from userid 275) id 51C9773098; Wed, 6 May 2009 00:20:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 00:20:22 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo To: Rick van der Zwet Message-ID: <20090505222022.GA36031@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <5aaae08a0905050258t5ca6a84ep2b7d1a47bcca6d8c@mail.gmail.com> <20090505104419.GA12107@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <5aaae08a0905051252l7d3cd0a0m7149d7421a4af20c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5aaae08a0905051252l7d3cd0a0m7149d7421a4af20c@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: luigi@freebsd.org, freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot0 testing (WAS: Re: nanobsd image boot issues) X-BeenThere: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:15:04 -0000 On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:52:51PM +0200, Rick van der Zwet wrote: > 2009/5/5 Luigi Rizzo : > > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:58:35AM +0200, Rick van der Zwet wrote: > >> Down below a thread currently running at freebsd-embedded@ regarding > >> the boot0 loader and it's weirdness. I don't seems to find a proper > >> way of getting the boot0 loader to work on various (old) hardware, > >> like Pentium I PC's with awardBios, which I need to get nanobsd to > >> work properly on various types of hardware. > > Turned out to be an issue with packet 'mode', as not all old PC's bios > did not have the support included, sigh :-( > > > One problem I had with some old hardware was that the BIOS > > could not read more than one sector at a time, and eventually > > (but it was really long ago so i do not remember > > the details well) I had to patch some code so that > > reading would occur one sector at a time instead of > > using track-long blocks. > > D?j? vu, that's fellow W(ireless)L(eiden) hacker Dw: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-May/000636.html ok so the actual patch was here http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-May/000638.html Does this patch fix your issue ? cheers luigi