Re: Hammer bootloader

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Neumann wrote:
> Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > seems I have finished hammer bootloader support (currently only boot2,
> > loader should be easy).  However the problem is that boot2 now exceeds
> > its size by 580 bytes.  This is a retarded limit, but what can you do.
> >
> > While probing around I realized that hammer fs can't be installed at
> > offset 0 in disklabel, could that be?  Where is that documented and who
> > keeps me from doing that?
> >
> > Anyways, this boot stuff is big time frustrating because there are so
> > many constants intertwingled.  I have no idea why my code currently
> > doesn't boot -- it doesn't even reach boot2's main().
>
> Very cool stuff!
>
> Did you know that a Hammer FS reserves a few megabytes at the beginning
> of the storage? You should be able to make use of that if you need more 
> storage for the boot loader.

No it does not -- it reserves the storage "somewhere at the beginning", 
but the first sectors are used by the superblock.  Anyways, I think btx 
is the problem, or something close.

cheers
  simon