Re: bootloader issue

Adding port-atari.

The bootloader issue has been identified and Izumi is working on a solution, 
see below.

David Ross
[email protected]


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Izumi Tsutsui" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:27 AM
Subject: Re: bootloader issue


> (If you don't mind, please foward this message to port-atari@)
>
>> Aha, the problem is boot.atari!
>>
>> I booted up from loadbsd.ttp with your kernel/sysinst and ran:
>> /usr/mdec/installboot -v /dev/rsd0c
>> ..it didn't help.
>>
>> Then I booted up from loadbst.ttp with your kernel/sysinst and copied
>> boot.atari from sysinst over to the mounted /dev/sd0a.  I wasn't too 
>> hopeful
>> that this would work after observing that the file sizes appeared to be 
>> the
>> same.  But it worked -- the system now boots!
>>
>> So somehow there is something different about the boot.atari on your
>> atari-HEAD-20090105 sysinst.fs vs. the one that's dropped onto the drive
>> during an install.
>
> Okay, I see. /boot.atari in base.tgz is actually a copy of
> /usr/mdec/milan/boot.atari, not /usr/mdec/std/boot.atari.
> (they have a different entry address)
>
> Maybe we should remove /boot.atari from base.tgz and
> modify sysinst to choose and copy a proper tertiary boot.atari
> from /usr/mdec dir per running machine types.
> I'll check how it can be handled in sysinst.
>
> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui
>