On Thu 1999-12-09 (02:46), Robert Watson wrote:
> Once we get into boot2 land, I recognize the FreeBSD-specific loading
> code, etc. What I don't know much about is those first three 512-byte
> chunks of code. Boot0 appears to be booteasy, but given some ignorance
> about the i386 boot process, I'm not sure whether it's loaded by mbr, or
> by the bios, and where it lives partition-wise. Similarly, how boot1 fits
> into it the whole scheme--I assume this is FreeBSD-specific as it knows
> about boot2, but don't know where it lives, etc. Preferably, afterwards,
> also drop the results into sys/boot/i386/README. :-)
I wrote up some basic stuff, which doesn't seem quite to describe
what you're after, but which may be of use, at
http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/boot/
It's intended for the handbook, but I haven't had time since starting
my new job to work on it much more.
Neil
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