On 27-Mar-00 Motomichi Matsuzaki wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I made a patch for /sys/boot/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c (attached).
> This aimed to enable /boot/loader to manage 8G-OVER-Disks.
>
> 0. you need 8G-OVER-ENABLED BIOS for your motherboard
> (check whether your BIOS has Int 13 Extended Interface)
>
> 1. teach boot0 using extended BIOS (See boot0cfg(8))
>
> # boot0cfg -o packet YOUR-BOOT-DEVICE
>
> 2. install boot2 which have extended BIOS support
>
> # cd /sys/boot/i386/boot2; make B1FLAGS=0x80 clean install
>
> 3. patch to libi386 and install new /boot/loader
>
> # cd /sys/boot/i386/libi386/; patch <THIS-MAIL; make
> # cd /sys/boot/i386/loader; make install
Looks good to me, but I need to test it to make sure. I will also look
at seeing if I can squeeze the int 13 extension installation check into
boot1 and boot0 so that they will use packet mode automatically as well.
I'll try and test this out in a day or two.
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