Re: [Etherboot-developers] 5.1.2+ Issues

[Eric W B. <ebi...@ln...>]

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

> >Ken I'm not certain what your ELF problems are.
> >I will have to test the output of mkelf-linux on a non-LinuxBIOS
> >machine and see what I get.  I cannot reproduce the problem.
> 
> I put the tomsrtbt image I usually netboot at
> 
> 	http://www.etherboot.org/tomsrtbt-2.0.103.nb
> 
> It's an ELF image generated from a bzImage and initrd and requires a
> PCBIOS Etherboot. See if you have any luck with it. diself will show you
> its segments.

O.k. I took a first cursory look.  And the problem occurs here as well.

I have made some small changes to the cvs copy of mknbi, that address
some of the problems.  At first glance it appears the problem is
the assumptions about the state etherboot will leave the system in
are two strong.  It does not appear to be an etherboot problem.

While looking I found one more fix for the e820 code now committed.

You might want to play with:
ftp://ftp.lnxi.com/pub/src/mkelfImage/mkelfImage-1.16.tar.gz

I suspect etherboot 5.2 will require a new version of mknbi/mkelf.  I think
mkelf-linux will even fail if RELOCADDR is changed from 0x90000.

Eric
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