Subject: Re: Boot Blocks
To: Greg L. Tanaka <glt@ugcs.caltech.edu>
From: Yeng-Chee Su <yenchee@Zeus.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
List: current-users
Date: 01/30/1994 15:38:16
> I tried installing the current bootblock (1/28/94) on my machine
> and they refuse to work. I don't even get up to boot2. I defined DEBUG in
> start.S and the boot block counted to 6. There was a line commented out
> a little before that, so I uncommented that out and now it counts to 1-4
> and then 7, but still no luck.
This is indeed a well-known problem. Uncomment #define BUFSIZE 4096 and
comment out #define BUFSIZE MAXBSIZE in sys.c under /sys/arch/i386/boot,
it will work fine. It's might be caused by stack overlapped, I think.
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