[Etherboot-developers] RE: Bug in etherboot 5.1.2rc7

[<hc...@et...>]

Strange.. 

I tried to put kernel.elf on the first partition but it failed. 
I organized my 1G hdd as follows. 

Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 2100 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1         3      1480+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2             4      2100   1056888   83  Linux   

In the hda1 I placed kernel.elf with dd if=kernel.elf of=/dev/hda1 and
placed rootfs on hda2
But It fails to find elf image. 
What did I wrong? 
I make kernel.elf with mkelfImage version 1.16.

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adjusted_boot_notes = 0x0fdb9d54
HEECHUL:esp     = 0x11968
ROM segment 0x0000 length 0x0000 reloc 0x00020000
Etherboot 5.1.2rc7 (GPL) Tagged ELF for [EEPRO100][IDE]
CPU 2052 Mhz
Boot from (N)etwork (D)isk (F)loppy or from (L)ocal? D

Probing pci disk...
[IDE]disk-1 1058400k cap: 0f00

Searching for image...
................................<abort>
Probing pci disk...
[IDE]
Probing isa disk...
                                      

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HeeChul Yun,          
Embedded S/W Team at ETRI
e-mail: hc...@et...
phone: +82-42-860-1673


 
> > Now I can boot from IDE. but I have a question. 
> > It seems that current etherboot ide support doesn't support 
> partition or
> > filesystem. 
> > So now I just installed kernel image without creating any partition 
> > (dd kernel.elf of=/dev/hda), but it is too wasteful. Is 
> there any way to
> > place both kernel 
> > and root filesystem on the same ide disk? 
> 
> As long as the ELF header is within the first 8K of the disk it will
> work.  So just make certain your first partition starts at sector 1,
> and is big enough to hold your boot elf image, and you can use
> the disk for multiple things.
> 
> Eric
>