> 	Recent biosboot.sym seems to be broken. If it is installed, my
> 	machine can't boot NetBSD. (sometimes boot, but easily panic!)
> 	I'm using mbr_bootsel (fdisk -B) boot selecter.

Some questions:

Exactly how far does it get?
Which messages (if any) do you see?
Can you interrupt the countdown?

Oh, and try the patch below.

	David

Index: start_bootsect.S
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/lib/crt/bootsect/start_bootsect.S,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -r1.19 start_bootsect.S
--- start_bootsect.S	2003/02/01 14:48:18	1.19
+++ start_bootsect.S	2003/02/20 18:51:09
@@ -462,6 +462,11 @@
 bootrealseg = . - gdt
 	.word	0xffff, 0
 	.byte	0, 0x9e, 0x00, 0
+
+	/* limits (etc) for data segment in real mode */
+bootrealdata = . - gdt
+	.word	0xffff, 0
+	.byte	0, 0x92, 0x00, 0
 gdtlen = . - gdt
 
 #ifdef __ELF__
@@ -527,13 +532,11 @@
 	movw	$efail, %si
 	call	message
 
-#if	1
 	/* call ROM BASIC */
 	int	$0x18
-#else
 	cli
-	hlt
-#endif
+1:	hlt
+	jmp	1b
 efail:	.asciz		"Boot fail\r\n"
 
 CR0_PE		=	0x1
@@ -542,7 +545,7 @@
  * real_to_prot()
  * 	transfer from real mode to protected mode.
  * NB: Call with the 32bit calll instruction so that a 32 bit
- *     return address is pushed (using a 32bit %esp).
+ *     return address is pushed.
  */
 ENTRY(real_to_prot)
 	.code16
@@ -594,6 +597,16 @@
 
 	movl	ourseg, %eax
 	movw	%ax, xreal-2
+
+	/*
+	 * Load the segment registers while still in protected mode.
+	 * Otherwise the control bits don't get changed.
+	 * The correct values are loaded later.
+	 */
+	movw	$bootrealdata, %ax
+	movw	%ax, %ds
+	movw	%ax, %es
+	movw	%ax, %ss
 
 	# Change to use16 mode.
 	ljmp	$bootrealseg, $x16

-- 
David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk