History log of /haiku/src/system/boot/platform/pxe_ia32/devices.cpp
Revision Date Author Comments
# 62f80a2a 04-Jul-2021 Jessica Hamilton <jessica.l.hamilton@gmail.com>

loader: fetch all potential boot partitions for device

This also keeps the functionality of hrev53848, which simplifies the
list of disks searched for bootable partitions; however, it maintains
the previous behaviour of platform_get_boot_partitions that continues
to iterate over a list of possible boot partitions, which should
allow finding a bootable BFS partition better in more circumstances.

Particularly, there are numerous reports of the UEFI loader entering
the boot menu despite it finding a bootable partition, which this
should address.

EFI's device_contains_partition is also structured such that it
compares the disk GPT table of the partition the loader is
querying of the EFI disk's GPT table, in the case that there are
multiple disks, as the most reliable method of comparison, with
a generic fallback for non-GPT disks, which will be less reliable.

This reverts commit 0d932a49ada8af6314cd3f20c3f597143f1f555d.

Change-Id: I5fac8608035d56b8bb4dc6c3d495ec6db42fa9b7
Reviewed-on: https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/4149
Reviewed-by: Alex von Gluck IV <kallisti5@unixzen.com>


# 0d932a49 08-Feb-2020 Fredrik Holmqvist <fredrik.holmqvist@gmail.com>

Revert "loader: fetch all potential boot partitions for boot device."

This reverts commit e888217124fa9fb214ffa790e6a66dca3917f25e.

Change-Id: I06be82ac863f615796d9edc86f5ef903b8123a9d
Reviewed-on: https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/2231
Reviewed-by: waddlesplash <waddlesplash@gmail.com>


# e1b41d44 13-Jun-2010 Andreas Faerber <andreas.faerber@web.de>

boot loader: Wire up net_stack_cleanup()

Add a platform cleanup hook before starting the kernel. The openfirmware
and PXE loaders clean up their network stack there, while the other
loaders currently do nothing.

This closes ticket #6166

Change-Id: I34765892dfd9b2310c6af97c9ff7d414afae49e5
Reviewed-on: https://review.haiku-os.org/c/50
Reviewed-by: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: waddlesplash <waddlesplash@gmail.com>


# f286626c 17-May-2017 Jessica Hamilton <jessica.l.hamilton@gmail.com>

pxe_ia32: add missing include for boot::Partition


# e8882171 13-May-2017 Jessica Hamilton <jessica.l.hamilton@gmail.com>

loader: fetch all potential boot partitions for boot device.

This allows the loader to skip BFS partitions that don't contain
a bootable system. Useful when you have a BFS data partition that
comes before the system partition when iterated over.

Currently, only the UEFI loader actually returns more than one
possible partition.


# 766f6823 06-Aug-2016 Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@gmail.com>

Fix build and first runtime problem in network boot

The boot still crashes some time later, but at least it is easier to
test now.

- PackageFS included in the net boot archive
- Tell the system it is booted "from image" when netbooting


# 93cb9538 20-Jun-2012 Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>

Don't store a KMessage in kernel_args for the boot volume, only the buffer address/size.

Pointers in kernel_args are going to be changed to unconditionally use 64-bit
storage (to make kernel_args compatible with both the x86 and x86_64 kernels).
KMessage stores a pointer to its buffer, however since KMessage is used
outside of the boot code it is undesirable to change it to use 64-bit storage
for the pointer as it may add additional overhead on 32-bit builds. Therefore,
only store the buffer address and size and then construct a KMessage from
those in the kernel.


# 9e8dc2a9 14-Jul-2007 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

[Sorry, couldn't split this one up any further.]
* Images preloaded by the boot loader had to be modules to be of any use
to the kernel. Extended the mechanism so that any images not accepted
by the module code would later be tried to be added as drivers by the
devfs. This is a little hacky ATM, since the devfs manages the drivers
using a hash map keyed by the drivers inode ID, which those drivers
obviously don't have.
* The devfs emulates read_pages() using read(), if the device driver
doesn't implement the former (all old-style drivers), thus making it
possible to BFS, which uses the file cache which in turn requires
read_pages(), on the device. write_pages() emulation is still missing.
* Replaced the kernel_args::boot_disk structure by a KMessage, which can
more flexibly be extended and deals more gracefully with
arbitrarily-size data. The disk_identifier structure still exists,
though. It is added as message field in cases where needed (non net
boot). Moved the boot_drive_number field of the bios_ia32 platform
specific args into the message.
* Made the stage 1 PXE boot loader superfluous. Moved the relevant
initialization code into the stage 2 loader, which can now be loaded
directly via PXE.
* The PXE boot loader does now download a boot tgz archive via TFTP. It
does no longer use the RemoteDisk protocol (it could actually be
removed from the boot loader). It also parses the DHCP options in the
DHCPACK packet provided by PXE and extracts the root path to be
mounted by the kernel.
* Reorganized the boot volume search in the kernel (vfs_boot.cpp) and
added support for network boot. In this case the net stack is
initialized and the network interface the boot loader used is brought
up and configured. Since NBD and RemoteDisk are our only options for
net boot (and those aren't really configurable dynamically) ATM, the
the boot device is found automatically by the disk device manager.

Booting via PXE does work to some degree now. The most grievous problem
is that loading certain drivers or kernel modules (or related activity)
causes a reboot (likely a triple fault, though one wonders where our
double fault handler is on vacation). Namely the keyboard and mouse input
server add-ons need to be deactivated as well as the media server.
A smaller problem is the net server, which apparently tries to
(re-)configure the network interface we're using to boot, which
obviously doesn't work out that well. So, if all this stuff is disabled
Haiku does fully boot, when using the RemoteDisk protocol (not being
able to use keyboard or mouse doesn't make this a particular fascinating
experience, though ;-)). I had no luck with NBD -- it seemed to have
protocol problems with the servers I tried.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@21611 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 43792b9e 12-Jan-2007 Marcus Overhagen <marcusoverhagen@gmail.com>

propagate required settings for the remote disk from boot loader to kernel (client-ip, server-ip, server-port)


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@19780 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# dd241323 25-Oct-2006 Marcus Overhagen <marcusoverhagen@gmail.com>

started the PXE UNDI network device support


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@19127 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 93cb9538be54a2dd4ab6097453ac7d521a9a0b6c 20-Jun-2012 Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>

Don't store a KMessage in kernel_args for the boot volume, only the buffer address/size.

Pointers in kernel_args are going to be changed to unconditionally use 64-bit
storage (to make kernel_args compatible with both the x86 and x86_64 kernels).
KMessage stores a pointer to its buffer, however since KMessage is used
outside of the boot code it is undesirable to change it to use 64-bit storage
for the pointer as it may add additional overhead on 32-bit builds. Therefore,
only store the buffer address and size and then construct a KMessage from
those in the kernel.


# 9e8dc2a9bbbe768acdfd224a6a4af01918bb4ce0 14-Jul-2007 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

[Sorry, couldn't split this one up any further.]
* Images preloaded by the boot loader had to be modules to be of any use
to the kernel. Extended the mechanism so that any images not accepted
by the module code would later be tried to be added as drivers by the
devfs. This is a little hacky ATM, since the devfs manages the drivers
using a hash map keyed by the drivers inode ID, which those drivers
obviously don't have.
* The devfs emulates read_pages() using read(), if the device driver
doesn't implement the former (all old-style drivers), thus making it
possible to BFS, which uses the file cache which in turn requires
read_pages(), on the device. write_pages() emulation is still missing.
* Replaced the kernel_args::boot_disk structure by a KMessage, which can
more flexibly be extended and deals more gracefully with
arbitrarily-size data. The disk_identifier structure still exists,
though. It is added as message field in cases where needed (non net
boot). Moved the boot_drive_number field of the bios_ia32 platform
specific args into the message.
* Made the stage 1 PXE boot loader superfluous. Moved the relevant
initialization code into the stage 2 loader, which can now be loaded
directly via PXE.
* The PXE boot loader does now download a boot tgz archive via TFTP. It
does no longer use the RemoteDisk protocol (it could actually be
removed from the boot loader). It also parses the DHCP options in the
DHCPACK packet provided by PXE and extracts the root path to be
mounted by the kernel.
* Reorganized the boot volume search in the kernel (vfs_boot.cpp) and
added support for network boot. In this case the net stack is
initialized and the network interface the boot loader used is brought
up and configured. Since NBD and RemoteDisk are our only options for
net boot (and those aren't really configurable dynamically) ATM, the
the boot device is found automatically by the disk device manager.

Booting via PXE does work to some degree now. The most grievous problem
is that loading certain drivers or kernel modules (or related activity)
causes a reboot (likely a triple fault, though one wonders where our
double fault handler is on vacation). Namely the keyboard and mouse input
server add-ons need to be deactivated as well as the media server.
A smaller problem is the net server, which apparently tries to
(re-)configure the network interface we're using to boot, which
obviously doesn't work out that well. So, if all this stuff is disabled
Haiku does fully boot, when using the RemoteDisk protocol (not being
able to use keyboard or mouse doesn't make this a particular fascinating
experience, though ;-)). I had no luck with NBD -- it seemed to have
protocol problems with the servers I tried.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@21611 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 43792b9eeda5ba6d5fc57b0779537681a022cfeb 12-Jan-2007 Marcus Overhagen <marcusoverhagen@gmail.com>

propagate required settings for the remote disk from boot loader to kernel (client-ip, server-ip, server-port)


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@19780 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# dd2413230f188adad068d984cfce9c9f29c6d0f8 25-Oct-2006 Marcus Overhagen <marcusoverhagen@gmail.com>

started the PXE UNDI network device support


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@19127 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96