Re: Kernel Tracking Question.. regarding kernel and boot files

From: Andriy Gapon <avg_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 10:15:28 +0300
on 10/04/2011 00:51 Chris Richardson said the following:
> Yeah. this file provides me with the stages in theoretical way. How about
> implementing it using qemu to emulate livecd to see what is going on boot0.
> Do you have an idea about that ?

Yes, that's perfectly possible.
You have to be familiar with assembly and know basic behavior of BIOS booting
(supposing we talk about x86) and FreeBSD boot blocks, e.g. what is loaded at
what address.

Here's an example of something related:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2010-May/008580.html

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Andriy Gapon
Received on Sun Apr 10 2011 - 05:15:34 UTC

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