! masterboot 2.0 - Master boot block code Author: Kees J. Bot ! ! This code may be placed in the first sector (the boot sector) of a floppy, ! hard disk or hard disk primary partition. There it will perform the ! following actions at boot time: ! ! - If the booted device is a hard disk and one of the partitions is active ! then the active partition is booted. ! ! - Otherwise the next floppy or hard disk device is booted, trying them one ! by one. ! ! To make things a little clearer, the boot path might be: ! /dev/fd0 - Floppy disk containing data, tries fd1 then d0 ! [/dev/fd1] - Drive empty ! /dev/c0d0 - Master boot block, selects active partition 2 ! /dev/c0d0p2 - Submaster, selects active subpartition 0 ! /dev/c0d0p2s0 - Minix bootblock, reads Boot Monitor /boot ! Minix - Started by /boot from a kernel image in /minix LOADOFF = 0x7C00 ! 0x0000:LOADOFF is where this code is loaded BUFFER = 0x0600 ! First free memory PART_TABLE = 446 ! Location of partition table within this code PENTRYSIZE = 16 ! Size of one partition table entry MAGIC = 510 ! Location of the AA55 magic number ! .h: bootind = 0 sysind = 4 lowsec = 8 .text ! Find active (sub)partition, load its first sector, run it. master: xor ax, ax mov ds, ax mov es, ax cli mov ss, ax ! ds = es = ss = Vector segment mov sp, #LOADOFF sti ! Copy this code to safety, then jump to it. mov si, sp ! si = start of this code push si ! Also where we'll return to eventually mov di, #BUFFER ! Buffer area mov cx, #512/2 ! One sector cld rep movs jmpf BUFFER+migrate, 0 ! To safety migrate: ! Find the active partition findactive: testb dl, dl jns nextdisk ! No bootable partitions on floppies mov si, #BUFFER+PART_TABLE find: cmpb sysind(si), #0 ! Partition type, nonzero when in use jz nextpart testb bootind(si), #0x80 ! Active partition flag in bit 7 jz nextpart ! It's not active loadpart: call load ! Load partition bootstrap jc error1 ! Not supposed to fail bootstrap: ret ! Jump to the master bootstrap nextpart: add si, #PENTRYSIZE cmp si, #BUFFER+PART_TABLE+4*PENTRYSIZE jb find ! No active partition, tell 'em call print .ascii "No active partition\0" jmp reboot ! There are no active partitions on this drive, try the next drive. nextdisk: incb dl ! Increment dl for the next drive testb dl, dl js nexthd ! Hard disk if negative int 0x11 ! Get equipment configuration shl ax, #1 ! Highest floppy drive # in bits 6-7 shl ax, #1 ! Now in bits 0-1 of ah andb ah, #0x03 ! Extract bits cmpb dl, ah ! Must be dl <= ah for drive to exist ja nextdisk ! Otherwise try disk 0 eventually call load0 ! Read the next floppy bootstrap jc nextdisk ! It failed, next disk please ret ! Jump to the next master bootstrap nexthd: call load0 ! Read the hard disk bootstrap error1: jc error ! No disk? ret ! Load sector 0 from the current device. It's either a floppy bootstrap or ! a hard disk master bootstrap. load0: mov si, #BUFFER+zero-lowsec ! si = where lowsec(si) is zero !jmp load ! Load sector lowsec(si) from the current device. The obvious head, sector, ! and cylinder numbers are ignored in favour of the more trustworthy absolute ! start of partition. load: mov di, #3 ! Three retries for floppy spinup retry: push dx ! Save drive code push es push di ! Next call destroys es and di movb ah, #0x08 ! Code for drive parameters int 0x13 pop di pop es andb cl, #0x3F ! cl = max sector number (1-origin) incb dh ! dh = 1 + max head number (0-origin) movb al, cl ! al = cl = sectors per track mulb dh ! dh = heads, ax = heads * sectors mov bx, ax ! bx = sectors per cylinder = heads * sectors mov ax, lowsec+0(si) mov dx, lowsec+2(si)! dx:ax = sector within drive cmp dx, #[1024*255*63-255]>>16 ! Near 8G limit? jae bigdisk div bx ! ax = cylinder, dx = sector within cylinder xchg ax, dx ! ax = sector within cylinder, dx = cylinder movb ch, dl ! ch = low 8 bits of cylinder divb cl ! al = head, ah = sector (0-origin) xorb dl, dl ! About to shift bits 8-9 of cylinder into dl shr dx, #1 shr dx, #1 ! dl[6..7] = high cylinder orb dl, ah ! dl[0..5] = sector (0-origin) movb cl, dl ! cl[0..5] = sector, cl[6..7] = high cyl incb cl ! cl[0..5] = sector (1-origin) pop dx ! Restore drive code in dl movb dh, al ! dh = al = head mov bx, #LOADOFF ! es:bx = where sector is loaded mov ax, #0x0201 ! Code for read, just one sector int 0x13 ! Call the BIOS for a read jmp rdeval ! Evaluate read result bigdisk: mov bx, dx ! bx:ax = dx:ax = sector to read pop dx ! Restore drive code in dl push si ! Save si mov si, #BUFFER+ext_rw ! si = extended read/write parameter packet mov 8(si), ax ! Starting block number = bx:ax mov 10(si), bx movb ah, #0x42 ! Extended read int 0x13 pop si ! Restore si to point to partition entry !jmp rdeval rdeval: jnc rdok ! Read succeeded cmpb ah, #0x80 ! Disk timed out? (Floppy drive empty) je rdbad dec di jl rdbad ! Retry count expired xorb ah, ah int 0x13 ! Reset jnc retry ! Try again rdbad: stc ! Set carry flag ret rdok: cmp LOADOFF+MAGIC, #0xAA55 jne nosig ! Error if signature wrong ret ! Return with carry still clear nosig: call print .ascii "Not bootable\0" jmp reboot ! A read error occurred, complain and hang error: mov si, #LOADOFF+errno+1 prnum: movb al, ah ! Error number in ah andb al, #0x0F ! Low 4 bits cmpb al, #10 ! A-F? jb digit ! 0-9! addb al, #7 ! 'A' - ':' digit: addb (si), al ! Modify '0' in string dec si movb cl, #4 ! Next 4 bits shrb ah, cl jnz prnum ! Again if digit > 0 call print .ascii "Read error " errno: .ascii "00\0" !jmp reboot reboot: call print .ascii ". Hit any key to reboot.\0" xorb ah, ah ! Wait for keypress int 0x16 call print .ascii "\r\n\0" int 0x19 ! Print a message. print: pop si ! si = String following 'call print' prnext: lodsb ! al = *si++ is char to be printed testb al, al ! Null marks end jz prdone movb ah, #0x0E ! Print character in teletype mode mov bx, #0x0001 ! Page 0, foreground color int 0x10 jmp prnext prdone: jmp (si) ! Continue after the string .data ! Extended read/write commands require a parameter packet. ext_rw: .data1 0x10 ! Length of extended r/w packet .data1 0 ! Reserved .data2 1 ! Blocks to transfer (just one) .data2 LOADOFF ! Buffer address offset .data2 0 ! Buffer address segment .data4 0 ! Starting block number low 32 bits (tbfi) zero: .data4 0 ! Starting block number high 32 bits