RE: boot floppy problems...
On 17-Jan-02 Mike Brancato wrote: Just leting you guys know that the Jan 15th and Jan 16th boot floppies aren't working. the Jan 13th snaps are though. How do they not work? We can't fix anything if you don't tell us what is wrong. :) mike -- John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ Power Users Use the Power to Serve! - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
RE: boot floppy problems...
oh, well. They say something along the lines of Disk error: lba is 0x9 (should be 0x10) or similar. then it trys to boot the kernel twice using the loader, but fails with the path 0:fd(0,a)/kernel i tried it in vmware with the same results comming right from the image. mike On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, John Baldwin wrote: On 17-Jan-02 Mike Brancato wrote: Just leting you guys know that the Jan 15th and Jan 16th boot floppies aren't working. the Jan 13th snaps are though. How do they not work? We can't fix anything if you don't tell us what is wrong. :) mike -- John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ Power Users Use the Power to Serve! - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: boot floppy problems...
In message Pine.LNX.4.21.0201170805060.3093-10@dosmonos, Mike Brancato wr ites: oh, well. They say something along the lines of Disk error: lba is 0x9 (should be 0x10) or similar. then it trys to boot the kernel twice using the loader, but fails with the path 0:fd(0,a)/kernel Hmm, the error is actually Disk error 0x9 (lba=0x10). I think this is my fault. Error 9 is data boundary error (attempted DMA across 64K boundary or 80h sectors), so by changing the buffers to being static in revision 1.35 of boot2.c, I broke the guarantee that single transfers don't cross a 64k boundary, which is important for floppies :-( I'll fix this shortly. Thanks for pointing out the problem! Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: boot floppy problems...
Mike Brancato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oh, well. They say something along the lines of Disk error: lba is 0x9 (should be 0x10) or similar. then it trys to boot the kernel twice using the loader, but fails with the path 0:fd(0,a)/kernel I have to confirm this, for a self-made make release of yesterday. Using the primary bootstrap of the harddisk, and loading fd(0,a)/boot/loader gets it running, so /boot/loader itself is OK. -- cheers, Jorg .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: boot floppy problems...
no problem. keep up the good work. mike On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Ian Dowse wrote: In message Pine.LNX.4.21.0201170805060.3093-10@dosmonos, Mike Brancato wr ites: oh, well. They say something along the lines of Disk error: lba is 0x9 (should be 0x10) or similar. then it trys to boot the kernel twice using the loader, but fails with the path 0:fd(0,a)/kernel Hmm, the error is actually Disk error 0x9 (lba=0x10). I think this is my fault. Error 9 is data boundary error (attempted DMA across 64K boundary or 80h sectors), so by changing the buffers to being static in revision 1.35 of boot2.c, I broke the guarantee that single transfers don't cross a 64k boundary, which is important for floppies :-( I'll fix this shortly. Thanks for pointing out the problem! Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: boot floppy problems...
In message Pine.LNX.4.21.0201171724390.5037-10@dosmonos, Mike Brancato wr ites: no problem. keep up the good work. mike Ok, it's fixed now. If you'd like to try it, there's an updated version of the kern.flp from today's -CURRENT snapshot at: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~iedowse/FreeBSD/kern.flp Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: boot floppy problems...
seems to work in vmware now. maybe i'll cvsup my source and rebuild my machine tonight. fun. thanks. mike On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Ian Dowse wrote: In message Pine.LNX.4.21.0201171724390.5037-10@dosmonos, Mike Brancato wr ites: no problem. keep up the good work. mike Ok, it's fixed now. If you'd like to try it, there's an updated version of the kern.flp from today's -CURRENT snapshot at: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~iedowse/FreeBSD/kern.flp Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
