Re: [Etherboot-developers] [COMMIT] 5.1.2+ boot from disk.

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ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:

> >O.k. so we have an image with overlapping segments.  The tagged image
> >specification does not mention them.  As the order of processing
> >the segments is not clearly defined we have an undefined case in
> >the tagged image specification.
> 
> No, mknbi doesn't generate overlapping segments. Have a look at the load
> map in first32.c to see where everything should go. Also disnbi will show
> you where the segments want to be.

O.k. I will look, but we did have an overlap, and that was the problem.
So some version of mknbi generated it.

In particular the first 512 bytes were overlapped by an unitialized
memory region.

Eric