where is the masterboot.s file?

Is it in the Minix souce files downloaded at [url]http://www.minix3.org/[/url] ?
I can not find the file in the Minix souce files package?
If there is not a masterboot.s file(and bootblock.s,bootthead.s,boot.c
bootimages.c ,rawfs.c) in the Minix souce files package,how can it be
compiled to a whole operting system?

En news:7c963a59-f296-49d5-93d4-cf14c5f6d299@s1g2000pra.googlegroups.com,
grass va escriure:[color=blue]
> Is it in the Minix souce files downloaded at [url]http://www.minix3.org/[/url] ?[/color]

Yes
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> I can not find the file in the Minix souce files package?[/color]

find /path/to/unpacked/src -name masterboot.s -print

My guess is that it should find it quickly, since the folders are stored in
alphabetical order ;-)

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> If there is not a masterboot.s file(and bootblock.s,bootthead.s,boot.c
> bootimages.c ,rawfs.c) in the Minix souce files package,how can it be
> compiled to a whole operting system?[/color]

Compiling it is a different thing, because of the 1981-compatible but now
quite awkward-looking PC architecture.
The real problem here is that masterboot.s and the rest are 16-bit code,
while the rest of Minix is 32-bit (these days); so you definitively need
some specific compiler setup to be able to compile this stuff.

However, these problems were much more annoying in the past than they are
now; usually, make (the Makefile really) hides the ugly details; IIRC,
a -mi86 option passed to cc does the job to invoke the 16-bit
compiler/assembler; of course this in turn requires you to have a "bi-arch"
(16+32) compiler installed.


Antoine

Thanks Antoine.
I find that file in /usr/src/boot in the Minix operateing system.
But can not find it in the Minix source package ([url]http://www.minix3.org/[/url]
download/minix-src-current.tar.gz). why does it not included in minix-
src-current.tar.gz?maybe it's is not part of the Minix operating system

oh,it's strange. I use Windows operating system. Before uncompressing
minix-src-current.tar.gz, the "boot" directory show in the winrar main
windows, but when uncompressed, it is disappeared. Any one who using
windows operating system meet the same problem?

grass escreveu:
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> oh,it's strange. I use Windows operating system. Before uncompressing
> minix-src-current.tar.gz, the "boot" directory show in the winrar main
> windows, but when uncompressed, it is disappeared. Any one who using
> windows operating system meet the same problem?[/color]

WinZip and WinRar need some trickery to maintain internal paths when
decompressing, don't ask me why.
Use 7-zip. It has the additional benefit of being FLOSS.

[url]http://www.7-zip.org[/url]

--
João Jerónimo

"Computer are composed of software, hardware, and other stuff terminated
in "ware", like firmware, tupperware, (...)" - by JJ.

<IIRC>[color=blue]
> WinZip and WinRar need some trickery to maintain internal paths when
> decompressing, don't ask me why.[/color]
</IIRC>

--
João Jerónimo

"Computer are composed of software, hardware, and other stuff terminated
in "ware", like firmware, tupperware, (...)" - by JJ.

the "boot" directory seem in there, because deleting the whole src
directory can make an error,i can sure not any process are accessing
the src directory.

Thanks João Jerónimo .

grass escreveu:
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> the "boot" directory seem in there, because deleting the whole src
> directory can make an error,i can sure not any process are accessing
> the src directory.[/color]

What's the error?

--
João Jerónimo

"Computer are composed of software, hardware, and other stuff terminated
in "ware", like firmware, tupperware, (...)" - by JJ.

I installed the 7-zip,but It still cannot exact the "boot" directory
from the source package. I retore my operating system, the problem
disappeared.

grass

I reinstalled my operating system. The prolem disappeared.


grass

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> I reinstalled my operating system. The prolem disappeared.
>[/color]
Windows way of life: [R]etry, [R]eboot, [R]einstall :)

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doubler mes revenus...