From 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Fri Jun 15 01:33:29 2001 Received: from mailman.lanl.gov (mailman.lanl.gov [128.165.5.1]) by acl.lanl.gov (8.11.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id f5F7XSp3068716; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 01:33:28 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mailproxy1.lanl.gov (mailproxy1.lanl.gov [128.165.0.26]) by mailman.lanl.gov (8.10.1/8.10.1/(cic-5, 6/12/00)) with ESMTP id f5F7XSm04765; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 01:33:28 -0600 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by mailproxy1.lanl.gov (8.11.4/8.11.4/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id f5F7XSE12083; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 01:33:28 -0600 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.20.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 6CD4D199FD; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 03:33:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nautilus.dat.escet.urjc.es (nautilus.dat.escet.urjc.es [212.128.1.37]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with SMTP id 09C19199E9 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 03:32:16 -0400 (EDT) To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "F.J.Ballesteros" <nemo@gsyc.escet.urjc.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010615073217.09C19199E9@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: [9fans] change to bitsy/devsac.c to use the new bootldr Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: <http://lists.cse.psu.edu/archives/9fans/> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:28:11 +0200 Status: RO X-Status: Hi, To load and use a ramdisk on the bitsy with the new boot loaders you need to change devsac.c: where it said p = (uchar*)Flash_tar+4; it should say now p = (uchar*)Flash_tar; This seems to be due to a change in the bootldr that now has a partition table. So the tar file created in ramdisk now gets placed exactly at 0x100000, not at 0x100004. Beware that this change can make devsac.c fail with previous verions of the bootldr, but you are likely to upgrade it anyway... BTW, you also need to create a ramdisk partition in the bootldr. I'll post in a minute an updated howto file (i.e. Booting101) for the new bootldr.