[Etherboot-developers] http protocol and a unknown image type causes a reboot

[Santiago G. M. <lis...@ma...>]

Hi!

Yesterday I hitted a bug that I have reproduced using cvs's etherboot-5.4
and I thought I could report it now that you are working on 5.4.1.

What I changed on the default config was to remove PXE support and to add
HTTP, then I told it to download an unknown image type from http (this was a
mistake I did :-) and the machine rebooted after stating that the image type
was unknown.

For what I read in the source code, after saying "error: not a valid image"
at load_block we should return back to http and then to loadkernel and to
eth_load where we should get the "Unable to load file." message. The thing
is that we are not getting this message, and I still get dots like if it was
downloading the image after the "error: not a valid image" message.

The same etherboot image downloading the same unkown image via tftp works ok
(giving the errors it must and getting back as it should, it seems a problem
just with http and unknown images, http otherwise seems to work ok.

I'm using gcc 3.3 to compile my images in a Debian environment in case that
matters.

Well, I don't know what else to say, if somebody tries to reproduce this and
he is not able, or you need some other info, just let me know and I'll try
to give more info.

If you prefer me to post a bug at sourceforge or something, just tell me.

Regards...
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