Hi Marc,
Thanks for your response. I've noticed a few interesting things btw.
I've found lots of #ifdef HARDDISK in this new boot sector code, so I
decided to give it a try. I've placed this boot sector code in
/dev/hda1 (leaving original FreeDOS MBR in /dev/hda) and for a first time
I've noticed something is alive: "MINIX boot" appeared on screen when I
booted from CF Card! But that's all, the next thing it tried to do was to
access floppy disk drive, having it empty, I could only see "Press key"
and it rebooted itself after pressing any key. I guess my XT-IDE card is
not handled properly, although when I boot ELKS from floppy I can see this
on the serial console:
hd Driver Copyright (C) 1994 Yggdrasil Computing, Inc.
Extended and modified for Liux 8086 by Alan Cox.
doshd: 2 floppy drives and 1 hard drive
/dev/hda: 123 cylindrs, 16 heads, 6 sectors = 60.5 Mb
(that's when 64MB FreeDOS CF Card is inserted)
Also, before the ELKS boot starts I can see this:
XTIDE Universal BIOS (XT) @ C800h
Master at 300h: CF Card
Slave at 300h: not found
I've tried to compile directhd driver, but it lacks #include <arch/io.h>
causing link-time issue as some of the macros defined there are mistaken
for functions (outb_p() and friends), adding missing #include <arch/io.h>
makes whole thing buildable, yet it still doesn't seem to make any
(visible) difference.
Cheers,
Paul
On Sun, 14 Apr 2019, Marc-F. Lucca-Daniau wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Not a surprise, as the new code has only been tested on 1.44 MB floppy.
>
> Looks like there is a missing "#ifdef FD360" in the boot sector new code...
>
> Now tracked by issue https://github.com/jbruchon/elks/issues/253
>
> Thanks for the report,
>
> MFLD
>
>
> Le 14/04/2019 ? 19:46, Paul Osmialowski a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having access to my old XT for next couple of days so I decided to
> > give the latest ELKS a go. Since I still don't know how to boot it from
> > CF-IDE card (I can boot FreeDOS from it), I'm still booting it from 360k
> > floppy. Unfortunately, nowadays it only prints MINIX and reboots itself
> > after a while.
> >
> > I managed to make it boot again after reverting following commits on
> > master:
> >
> > 93b57f474cb0e3fa9917b4783781cd405c944b04 [libc] Data segment starts with
> > nil data
> > 9e038b816014f83c0808df1ee5697380cd6be499 Revise bootblocks for GCC-IA16
> >
> > (the first one is reverted mostrly to reduce conflicts when reverting the
> > other one).
> >
> > I guess something went wrong with implementing new features.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Paul
> >
> >
>
