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authorAndrew Robbins <contact@andrewrobbins.info>2018-12-25 21:41:27 -0500
committerAndrew Robbins <contact@andrewrobbins.info>2018-12-25 21:41:27 -0500
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Automate updating SeaGRUB floppy image blocklists
Related issue #553 Determining the byte offset of core.img on the SeaGRUB floppy is accomplished using grub_bo(), though it is memory bound as it requires reading hex dumps for the pattern and comparand into memory. The blocklists that are stored in the boot record and core.img are sector numbers. Of particular note is the blocklist written to core.img is always the location of its *second* sector--not the first. Blocklists are used because floppy disks DO NOT have an MBR or MBR gap as the filesystem spans the entire disk. Consequently, the core.img cannot be stored in the usual ~1MiB gap. Unfortunately, using blocklists means they will have to be updated whenever core.img is moved. New functions added to grub-helper: * grub_bo * grub_bo_dump * grub_bo_search * grub_blocklist_format * grub_blocklist_generate * grub_floppy_image_make_bootable * grub_floppy_image_update_blocklists
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