Re: [Etherboot-users] Error: segment in reserved area

[Timothy L. <tl...@ro...>]

Scott Smedley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I keep getting a "segment in reserved area" error when I generate
> a NBI using mkelf-linux (v1.4.4) on my Fedora Core 4 system.
> 
> The frustrating thing is if I generate the NBI on my Redhat 9
> system (mkelf-linux v1.4.3) the image boots just fine.
> 
> I tried --relocseg=0x8000 but the booting process aborted pretty
> quickly (I forget what the error was, sorry).
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I need to do to be able to get around this
> error & generate a working NBI with mkelf-linux v1.4.4?

Hi

Try using 1.4.3 on the fedora core 4 machine.  If that does not work, it 
is possible that you are running into a perl issue.  There was bug on 
some systems with perl 5.8 that could be seen when doing this:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 perl -e 'use bytes; print chr(255);' | od -bc
LANG=en_US perl -e 'use bytes; print chr(255);' | od -bc

The use bytes; is supposed to take precedence over the Unicode
preference in the environment.

I am not sure if it makes a difference with mknbi but it is worth a look.

Tim