Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 22:54:10 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: BootFORTH demo floppy. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812192253030.20141-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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Hi, Some people asked me to prepare a demo floppy for the new, 3-stage bootloader that comes with FreeBSD. Without too much exagerration you could call it a Forth equipped OS. Some of its features include: * runs in protected mode * is able to call BIOS services * read-only support for *BSD UFS, ISO9660 and DOS filesystems, as well as virtual filesystems: zipfs (working), tftpfs, nfs (under development) * Forth compiler/interpreter (based on FICL) * ability to load/unload/execute a.out and ELF kernels and kernel modules * ability to scan system buses and devices * support for normal as well as serial console So, here's an early Christmas gift for you: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/bootldr.bin This is a floppy image which you should dd onto the floppy, and boot from it. The kernel provided on the floppy is standard PicoBSD "dial" version, so it's not only a demo - you can do some real things with it as well. Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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