From owner-cvs-all Wed Sep 30 16:19:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21758 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:19:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m2-15-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21398; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:19:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id BAA00630; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 01:17:33 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199809302317.BAA00630@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common load_elf.c Makefile.inc In-Reply-To: <199809302249.GAA14982@spinner.netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Oct 1, 98 06:49:01 am" To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 01:17:30 +0200 (SAT) Cc: shmit@kublai.com, ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Peter Wemm wrote: > Brian Cully wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 04:39:11AM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > - It starts the BTX mini-kernel and the third stage runs in there with > > > BIOS access via vm86 mode. (this is really cool :-). > > > > And, for me at least, it craps out right about here. :-( > > I did say it had some rough edges, remember? :-) According to the register dump, the firmware on the machine in question is snooping around in low memory probably trying to identify some specific OS. The area happens to coincide with BTX's system tables. Should have a fix in a day or two. -- Robert Nordier