Re: [Etherboot-developers] booting non linux images

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Anuradha Ratnaweera <anu...@gn...> writes:

> On 12 May 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > The attached patch to memtest86-2.5 builds it as an ELF image.
> > Etherboot cannot load an unpatched image memtest86 loads to low in
> > memory.
> > 
> > I have used this succesfully with the 4.6.10 with Multiboot support
> > compiled it.
> 
> The patch applies neatly and memtest86.bin builds fine. But making
> memtest86.ebi stops with a link error.
> 
> ld -T memtest86.lds head.obj relo.obj -o memtest86.ebi
> ld: bfd assertion fail ../../bfd/elf.c:1405
> ld: bfd assertion fail ../../bfd/elf.c:1405
> relo.obj: file not recognized: File format not recognized
> make: *** [memtest86.ebi] Error 1
> 
> Any clue?

Grr yes.  Your version of ld is buggy.
I have seen this once before.  If I could figure out how
to make it work with your version of ld I would.

I think I have a bad choice of names in relo.obj.  Because
except for names relo.obj and head.obj are exactly identical.

What I am currently running is:
GNU ld 2.10.90
Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
  Supported emulations:
   elf_i386
   i386linux


Eric