>
> The documentation in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386 seems a little scant, and that
> still hanging out in /usr/src/sys/i386/boot is clearly outdated. Was
> wondering if someone could point me at docs, and/or post a short summary
> something in the form of:
http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/FTL/tutoria
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Robert Watson wrote:
> loaderloadedbyfunction
>
> mbr BIOSwhatever, maybe a couple of lines
/boot/mbr is a copy of the classic DOS MBR code. Used by fdisk. Simply
loads the partition marked as 'active' (flag 0x8
dcs suggests that the correct answer is:
mbr is a replacement for boot0, without the OS choices. This seems to
make sense, so I'll go with that unless someone has a better idea :-). We
assume that you would never, therefore, use both mbr and boot0, explaining
why there doesn't need to be an ex
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> 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, b
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,
The documentation in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386 seems a little scant, and that
still hanging out in /usr/src/sys/i386/boot is clearly outdated. Was
wondering if someone could point me at docs, and/or post a short summary
something in the form of:
loader loadedbyfunction
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