Re: Hammer bootloader

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

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.

Regards,

  Michael