Re: [Etherboot-developers] booting non linux images

[Ken Y. <ke...@bi...>]

>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

If you know the load map of memtest86, it's fairly easy to write a
routine for mknbi.pl to generate a tagged/ELF image. Look at sub
mknbi_rom for the simplest example.