2 Copyright (C) 2000, Entity Cyber, Inc.
4 Authors: Gary Byers (gb@thinguin.org)
5 Marty Connor (mdc@thinguin.org)
7 This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
8 of the GNU Public License (GPL), incorporated herein by reference.
12 This is just a little bit of code and data that can get prepended
13 to an Etherboot ROM image in order to allow LILO to load the
14 result as if it were a Linux kernel image.
16 A real Linux kernel image consists of a one-sector boot loader
17 (to load the image from a floppy disk), followed a few sectors
18 of setup code, followed by the kernel code itself. There's
19 a table in the first sector (starting at offset 497) that indicates
20 how many sectors of setup code follow the first sector and which
21 contains some other parameters that aren't interesting in this
24 When LILO loads the sectors that comprise a kernel image, it doesn't
25 execute the code in the first sector (since that code would try to
26 load the image from a floppy disk.) The code in the first sector
27 below doesn't expect to get executed (and prints an error message
28 if it ever -is- executed.) LILO's only interested in knowing the
29 number of setup sectors advertised in the table (at offset 497 in
32 Etherboot doesn't require much in the way of setup code.
33 Historically, the Linux kernel required at least 4 sectors of
34 setup code. Current versions of LILO look at the byte at
35 offset 497 in the first sector to indicate how many sectors
36 of setup code are contained in the image.
40 #define SETUPSECS 4 /* Minimal nr of setup-sectors */
41 #define PREFIXSIZE ((SETUPSECS+1)*512)
42 #define PREFIXPGH (PREFIXSIZE / 16 )
43 #define BOOTSEG 0x07C0 /* original address of boot-sector */
44 #define INITSEG 0x9000 /* we move boot here - out of the way */
45 #define SETUPSEG 0x9020 /* setup starts here */
46 #define SYSSEG 0x1000 /* system loaded at 0x10000 (65536). */
52 .section ".prefix", "ax", @progbits
54 This is a minimal boot sector. If anyone tries to execute it (e.g., if
55 a .lilo file is dd'ed to a floppy), print an error message.
59 jmp $BOOTSEG, $1f /* reload cs:ip to match relocation addr */
61 movw $0x2000, %di /* 0x2000 is arbitrary value >= length
62 of bootsect + room for stack */
69 movw %ax, %ss /* put stack at BOOTSEG:0x2000. */
73 movw $why_end-why, %cx
76 movw $0x0007, %bx /* page 0, attribute 7 (normal) */
77 movb $0x0e, %ah /* write char, tty mode */
84 why: .ascii "This image cannot be loaded from a floppy disk.\r\n"
94 .word _load_size_pgh - PREFIXPGH
109 We're now at the beginning of the second sector of the image -
110 where the setup code goes.
112 We don't need to do too much setup for Etherboot.
114 This code gets loaded at SETUPSEG:0. It wants to start
115 executing the Etherboot image that's loaded at SYSSEG:0 and
116 whose entry point is SYSSEG:0.
119 /* Etherboot expects to be contiguous in memory once loaded.
120 * LILO doesn't do this, but since we don't need any
121 * information that's left in the prefix, it doesn't matter:
122 * we just have to ensure that %cs:0000 is where the start of
123 * the Etherboot image *would* be.
125 ljmp $(SYSSEG-(PREFIXSIZE/16)), $run_etherboot
130 We're now at the beginning of the kernel proper.
135 /* Jump to .text16 segment */
139 .section ".text16", "awx", @progbits
144 popl %eax /* discard */
146 /* Boot next device */