From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 9 0:22:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45850151B4 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 00:22:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11vypr-000OOc-00; Thu, 09 Dec 1999 10:21:59 +0200 Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 10:21:59 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Robert Watson Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about boot loaders Message-ID: <19991209102159.B88680@ns1.sunesi.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Rhodes University Computer Users' Society X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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