Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!vuwcomp!jonathan
From: jonathan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Jonathan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: 1.3c bootblok.s broken +FIX (was Re: 1.3c upgrade results[LONG])
Keywords: Minix, 1.3c, bugs, bootblok
Message-ID: <14265@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 6 Oct 88 04:52:23 GMT
References: <1429@ast.cs.vu.nl> <14243@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <1454@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: jonathan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Jonathan)
Organization: Comp Sci, Victoria Univ, Wellington, New Zealand
Lines: 58

In article <1454@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>In article <14243@comp.vuw.ac.nz> jonathan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Jonathan) writes:
>>	(10) the new bootblok.s seems broken.  
>Good grief.  I have made up the 1.3 diskettes and put them in a box full
>of styrofoam and sealed it and am waiting to send it off.  I am not
>enthusiastic about starting all over, but this bug, if true, is deadly.

A Minix kernel built from bootblok.s as posted in 1.3c will *never*
boot off a 360k floppy.  A context diff fixing this is included.
I've tested it result on both 1.2M and 360k.

#! /bin/sh
# This is a shell archive, meaning:
# 1. Remove everything above the #! /bin/sh line.
# 2. Save the resulting text in a file.
# 3. Execute the file with /bin/sh (not csh) to create the files:
#	bootblok.cdiff
# This archive created: Thu Oct  6 16:45:04 1988
# By:	Jonathan ()
export PATH; PATH=/bin:$PATH
echo shar: extracting "'bootblok.cdiff'" '(347 characters)'
if test -f 'bootblok.cdiff'
then
	echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'bootblok.cdiff'"
else
sed 's/^X//' << \SHAR_EOF > 'bootblok.cdiff'
X*** /usr/src/minix/tools/bootblok-1.3c	Sun Oct  2 13:13:04 1988
X--- bootblok.s	Thu Oct  6 16:23:22 1988
X***************
X*** 136,142 ****
X  	mov	DSKBASE,ax
X  	seg	es
X  	mov	DSKBASE+2,dx
X! 	int	0x13		| diskette reset
X  
X  L1:
X  
X--- 136,143 ----
X  	mov	DSKBASE,ax
X  	seg	es
X  	mov	DSKBASE+2,dx
X! 	xor	ax,ax		| diskette reset
X! 	int	0x13
X  
X  L1:
X  
SHAR_EOF
if test 347 -ne "`wc -c < 'bootblok.cdiff'`"
then
	echo shar: error transmitting "'bootblok.cdiff'" '(should have been 347 characters)'
fi
fi # end of overwriting check
#	End of shell archive
exit 0
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