Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 10:48:59 +0000 () From: hans@brandinnovators.com (Hans Zuidam) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: bootloader & memory test... Message-ID: <199612271048.KAA05227@truk.brandinnovators.com>
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Hi, After about a year of sig-11 plague I decided to find exactly what was wrong with the memory of my system and found a program called MemTest-86 by Chris Brady. It is the only one that's indeed reporting errors, none of the DOS based ones found anything! To narrow the search space I would like to make some modifications, but the sources use a modified version of the Linux boot loader. To make things worse apparently two different assembler syntaxes (AT&T and Intel) are used and I am not well versed (to say the least) in either. The memory test sets the CPU for flat 32 bit addressing and loads itself to address 0x100. It uses the area from 0x0 to 0xFF as it's stack. Could someone give me a hand (or pointers) to achieve the same using the FreeBSD boot loader? Thanks in advance, Hans -- H. Zuidam E-Mail: hans@brandinnovators.com Brand Innovators B.V. P-Mail: P.O. Box 1377 de Pinckart 54 5602 BJ Eindhoven, The Netherlands 5674 CC Nuenen Tel. +31 40 2631134, Fax. +31 40 2831138
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