Re: boot floppy problems...

[Mike Brancato]

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 , 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
> 
> 


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Re: boot floppy problems...

[Ian Dowse]

In message , 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

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Re: boot floppy problems...

[Mike Brancato]

no problem.
keep up the good work.

mike

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Ian Dowse wrote:

> In message , 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
> 
> 


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Re: boot floppy problems...

[Joerg Wunsch]

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.

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Re: boot floppy problems...

[Ian Dowse]

In message , 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

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RE: boot floppy problems...

[Mike Brancato]

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
> 
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> 
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RE: boot floppy problems...

[John Baldwin]

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

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