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Date:      Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:11:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot0 Makefile boot0.s
Message-ID:  <200007121811.LAA81651@freefall.freebsd.org>

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jhb         2000/07/12 11:11:55 PDT

  Modified files:
    sys/boot/i386/boot0  Makefile boot0.s 
  Log:
  The new and improved boot0, v1.1.  This version adds the following:
  - Autodetection and support of the BIOS EDD extensions to work around the
    1024 cylinder limit on all but really ancient BIOS's.
  - To work around some BIOS's which break when EDD is used with older drives,
    we only attempt to use EDD if the cylinder is > 1023.
  - Since this new code required more space than we had left, expand boot0 to
    2 sectors (1024 bytes) in length.
  - Add support for boot0 being multiple sectors using predefined constants.
    If boot0 needs to be extended in the future, all that is required is
    bumping the NUM_SECTORS constant.
  - Now that we have more room to work with, add a few more fs type
    descriptions while making others more verbose.
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.10      +3 -2      src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/Makefile
  1.17      +214 -76   src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.s



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