Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 10:21:59 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about boot loaders Message-ID: <19991209102159.B88680@ns1.sunesi.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991209024113.26554D-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991209024113.26554D-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Thu 1999-12-09 (02:46), Robert Watson wrote: > Once we get into boot2 land, I recognize the FreeBSD-specific loading > code, etc. What I don't know much about is those first three 512-byte > chunks of code. Boot0 appears to be booteasy, but given some ignorance > about the i386 boot process, I'm not sure whether it's loaded by mbr, or > by the bios, and where it lives partition-wise. Similarly, how boot1 fits > into it the whole scheme--I assume this is FreeBSD-specific as it knows > about boot2, but don't know where it lives, etc. Preferably, afterwards, > also drop the results into sys/boot/i386/README. :-) I wrote up some basic stuff, which doesn't seem quite to describe what you're after, but which may be of use, at http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/boot/ It's intended for the handbook, but I haven't had time since starting my new job to work on it much more. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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