Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 14:43:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, dhw@whistle.com, mark@whistle.com Subject: Re: Fix for CDROM boot for IBM PC desktops Message-ID: <200104062143.OAA76607@whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010406141330.jhb@FreeBSD.org> from John Baldwin at "Apr 6, 2001 02:13:30 pm"
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John Baldwin writes: | Well, think of boot1 as a really small device driver and xread as a syscall. | The offset is a magic number. I'd prefer not to, but whatever. | The maintainer for this stuff is Robert Nordier (rnordier@) and he'll need to | sign off on it. Any chance you could figuratively kick the head of whoever at | IBM did this up around their ears for assuming all the world is DOS? :) I'll send a note to him. I haven't heard anything from him for a long time. Like right, we can't get info out of "ourselves". However I have some insight into the IBM desktop BIOS not that I can change it though. It looks like if we just do the first 25 bytes or so then we are safe. All I can do is make FreeBSD work nicely on IBM machines since there is an incentive to make that happen here. Also we can't change the X number of machines that are out there. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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