Re: [Etherboot-developers] been testing 5.0.7rc2 and 5.1.2rc1

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ke...@us... writes:

> I've just tested 5.0.7rc2 and just as well I did because I had
> introduced a embarrassing bug, but I've fixed it in the CVS now. I
> should be able to hand it to Marty for wider testing on rom-o-matic
> soonish.
> 
> I also gave 5.1.2rc1 a whirl, no special options, and found that it
> wasn't able to complete loading FreeDOS. It ended with Unable to load
> file. Linux was ok. But I don't think it's anything to do with the OSes.
> I think it's a termination condition in the TFTP loader code that's not
> right and the FreeDOS image just happened to be the right length to
> tickle the bug.  Haven't looked into it closely.

This may be a tagging image versus elf image problem.  Given that the
tftp code was basically untouched and a heavily touched the binary
loaders.

Eric