Re: about freebsd boot1.S

2004-09-30 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 29 September 2004 03:32 pm, vijay singh wrote: > hello all, i am trying to understand the freebsd boot code. i saw that the > 1st stage boot loader relocates itself from 7c00 to 700. why is this done? > if the run time kernel were to switch to real-mode and transfer control to > this l

about freebsd boot1.S

2004-09-30 Thread vijay singh
hello all, i am trying to understand the freebsd boot code. i saw that the 1st stage boot loader relocates itself from 7c00 to 700. why is this done? if the run time kernel were to switch to real-mode and transfer control to this location (0700) would the 1st stage boot program run again? for t