Boot0 testing (WAS: Re: nanobsd image boot issues)

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:52:51PM +0200, Rick van der Zwet wrote:
> 2009/5/5 Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at iet.unipi.it>:
> > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:58:35AM +0200, Rick van der Zwet wrote:
> >> Down below a thread currently running at freebsd-embedded@ regarding
> >> the boot0 loader and it's weirdness. I don't seems to find a proper
> >> way of getting the boot0 loader to work on various (old) hardware,
> >> like Pentium I PC's with awardBios, which I need to get nanobsd to
> >> work properly on various types of hardware.
> 
> Turned out to be an issue with packet 'mode', as not all old PC's bios
> did not have the support included, sigh :-(
> 
> > One problem I had with some old hardware was that the BIOS
> > could not read more than one sector at a time, and eventually
> > (but it was really long ago so i do not remember
> > the details well) I had to patch some code so that
> > reading would occur one sector at a time instead of
> > using track-long blocks.
> 
> D?j? vu, that's fellow W(ireless)L(eiden) hacker Dw:
>      http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-May/000636.html

ok so the actual patch was here
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-May/000638.html

Does this patch fix your issue ?

cheers
luigi