On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Nyef wrote:

> On this subject, at http://www.dridus.com/~nyef/macboot/, macboot4.tgz is
> boot-block code that demonstrates working keyboard input.

The good news: macboot5.tgz demonstrates working filesystem access (by
dumping the contents of /netbsd on whatever filesystem it's on to the
screen). This code may be specific to a 1.4.2 kernel, since it uses parts
of libsa and libkern, and I'm still running 1.4.2.

The bad news: There's only about 1k worth of space left in the bootblock.
It looks like it might spill over into a second stage before it can load a
kernel.

More bad news: I can't mount the filesystems I need to use on any of my
machines (either the floppy driver won't accept 1.44 meg disks (on the
macs), or the filesystem driver won't work with big-endian filesystems (on
the PCs)). Further development will probably be curtailed until I can
work around this problem.

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All programming can be viewed as an exercise.
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Alastair Bridgewater
e-mail: nyef@softhome.net