Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 21:57:19 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Update your EFI bootloader. Message-ID: <20020404055719.96F723811@overcee.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20020330233636.GA2687@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Gang, > > It is adviced to update your EFI loader as soon a conveniently > possible. It is harmless to update the kernel without updating > the EFI loader for now, but this may not hold for future kernels. > > The relevant changes are to pass the address of the bootinfo > block from the loader to the kernel in a register (r8), and not > use a hardwired address for this. The kernel still looks at the > hardwired address, but does check if it has been passed in r8 > as well. I'm still not having much luck. I've not been able to build a loader since ~Nov 20th or so. fs0:\boot> dir Directory of fs0:\boot 10/22/01 07:59a <DIR> 4,096 . 10/22/01 07:59a <DIR> 0 .. .. 04/03/02 09:44p 465,585 nloader.efi 11/19/01 12:14a 489,901 loader.efi .. fs0:\boot> nloader 'nloader' not found Exit status code: Invalid Parameter fs0:\boot> loader Console: EFI console FreeBSD/ia64 EFI boot, Revision 0.1 (peter@overcee.netplex.com.au, Mon Nov 19 00:14:52 PST 2001) | can't load 'kernel' Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. ok I'll be damned if I can find anything obviously wrong with it. objdump etc show nothing unusual different between them. I might have to resort to actually reading hexdumps and comparing fields. (I'm using a native gcc and in-tree binutils to build this) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message
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