BlackBox/OS2LDR interface
When initially transferring control to OS2LDR from a 'black box', the
following interface is defined:
DH boot mode flags:
bit 0 (NOVOLIO) on indicates that the mini-FSD does not use MFSH_DOVOLIO.
bit 1 (RIPL) on indicates that boot volume is not local (RIPL boot)
bit 2 (MINIFSD) on indicates that a mini-FSD is present.
bit 3 (RESERVED)
bit 4 (MICROFSD) on indicates that a micro-FSD is present.
bits 5-7 are reserved and MUST be zero.
DL drive number for the boot disk. This parameter is ignored if either the
NOVOLIO or MINIFSD bits are zero.
DS:SI is a pointer to the BOOT Media's BPB. This parameter is ignored if
either the NOVOLIO or MINIFSD bits are zero.
ES:DI is a pointer to a filetable structure. The filetable structure has
the following format:
struct FileTable {
unsigned short ft_cfiles; /* # of entries in this table */
unsigned short ft_ldrseg; /* paragraph # where OS2LDR is loaded */
unsigned long ft_ldrlen; /* length of OS2LDR in bytes */
unsigned short ft_museg; /* paragraph # where microFSD is loaded */
unsigned long ft_mulen; /* length of microFSD in bytes */
unsigned short ft_mfsseg; /* paragraph # where miniFSD is loaded */
unsigned long ft_mfslen; /* length of miniFSD in bytes */
unsigned short ft_ripseg; /* paragraph # where RIPL data is loaded */
unsigned long ft_riplen; /* length of RIPL data in bytes */
/* The next four elements are pointers to microFSD entry points */
unsigned short (far *ft_muOpen)
(char far *pName, unsigned long far *pulFileSize);
unsigned long (far *ft_muRead)
(long loffseek, char far *pBuf, unsigned long cbBuf);
unsigned long (far *ft_muClose)(void);
unsigned long (far *ft_muTerminate)(void);
}
The microFSD entry points interface is defined as follows:
mu_Open - is passed a far pointer to name of file to be opened and a far
pointer to a ULONG to return the file's size. The returned value (in AX)
indicates success(0) or failure(non-0).
mu_Read - is passed a seek offset, a far pointer to a data buffer, and the
size of the data buffer. The returned value(in DX:AX) indicates the number
of bytes actually read.
mu_Close - has no parameters and expects no return value. It is a signal
to the micro-FSD that the loader is done reading the current file.
mu_Terminate - has no parameters and expects no return value. It is a
signal to the micro-FSD that the loader has finished reading the boot
drive.
The loader will call the micro-FSD in a Open-Read-Read-....- Read-Close
sequence with each file read in from the boot drive.
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