Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 15:02:47 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: filo@yahoo.com Cc: mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: biosboot/start.S needs fix for Intel AL440LX motherboard Message-ID: <199710170532.PAA00955@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:12:16 MST." <199710170512.WAA23150@ns2.yahoo.com>
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> > yeah, it definitely looks like the bios is simply not setting %dl > correctly. i've moved the disk between machines and it works fine in > every other config with 0x80 getting passed in. it is clearly 0x00 on > the al440lx board. I guess we need to bring this to their attention; are there Intel insiders reading this? Anyone with contacts at Intel or Phoenix? > > Are you booting from a SCSI disk? If so what controller? Do you have > > an IDE disk you can try booting from? > > tried several different 2940 cards. i just tired an ide disk with the > same results (%dl == 0x00). OK, so it's nothing that they can blame on the disk controller BIOS. > > I won't have my hands on one of those boards until mid-next week (this > > is an "Atlantic", correct?), and probably not for very long then. > > yep, i think it's called "atlanta" I won't have one, now. Bummer. > > Symptoms of this problem are a system which attempts to access the > > floppy disk when booting from the hard disk, displaying an endless > > succession of > > > > C:0 H:0 S:0 > > > > error messages. > > > > David; can you confirm that last paragraph? I'm just guessing there. > > actually you get a single "Read error" message. and this is with the > latest bios 4A4LL0X0.86A.0013.P03 dated 10/02/97. OK. Jordan; should I be munging RELNOTES, or is this one yours? > btw, i ended up doing something similar to bteasy and made the > following changes to start.S. This breaks it for booting from a floppy, which isn't quite what we want. It should work just fine for your application though. mike
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