Re: [Etherboot-developers] booting non linux images

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

>Finally wrote a small C program to convert memtest86.bin to a tagged
>image. It

See if this two line change to mknbi.pl makes it work on memtest86.bin

--- mknbi.pl.orig	Sat May  5 05:21:39 2001
+++ mknbi.pl	Wed May 16 16:19:12 2001
@@ -186,8 +186,8 @@
 	print STDERR 'sig ver flags', "\n" if (DEBUG);
 	print STDERR "$sig $ver $flags\n" if (DEBUG);
 	if ($sig ne 'HdrS' or $ver < 0x201) {
-		print STDERR "$kernelfile: not a Linux kernel image\n";
-		return;
+		print STDERR "Warning: $kernelfile: not a Linux kernel image, maybe it's memtest86.bin?\n";
+		# return;
 	}
 	$bigker = ($flags & 0x1);
 	$kernelseg = { file => $ARGV[0],