From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 13 15:30:27 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA15406 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 15:30:27 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA15400 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 15:30:24 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA09151; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 15:26:20 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199510132226.PAA09151@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: three-stage boot To: uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com (Frank Durda IV) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 15:26:20 -0700 (PDT) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Frank Durda IV" at Oct 13, 95 08:46:00 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 882 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Well ther is the 2nd stage bootblocks of course.. they do all these things! > > [0]Speaking of the three-stage boot stuff, I'd like to hear from some/anyone > [0]that has a set of screen, serial and disk libraries that interact directly > [0]with the BIOS in the state that it's in when the bootsector is loaded. > > Yeah, I have some of this stuff from the XENIX days. The filesystem > stuff would have to be replaced, but I assume all you are interested in > is mainly the stuff for getting the BIOS to read the hard disk > and maybe keep the user informed on progress, right? > > I'll dig this stuff up if you want it. > > Frank Durda IV |"Remember, Bill is getting > or uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com (Fastest Route)| richer as we argue...." > ...letni!rwsys!nemesis!uhclem | > ...decvax!fw.ast.com!nemesis!uhclem | > > >