Re: [Etherboot-developers] Universal auto-probing driver

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

> >When built on my machine:
> >etherboot.o        is 231245 bytes
> >etherboot-pci.o    is 171370 bytes
> >etherboot.img      is 183444 bytes
> >etherboot.zimg     is  84581 bytes
> >etherboot-pci.img  is 140628 bytes
> >etherboot-pci.zimg is  75420 bytes
> >...
> >So I guess the next step is to look at the floppy loader and see
> >what can be done about this so mere mortals can load super etherboot
> >images.
> 
> Unless boot1a.s is made smarter, the limit it can load is 128 kB because
> it takes the number of 512 byte sectors to load from the length byte in
> the "ROM" image. It could be made smarter to look inside the PCI header
> which uses a short to hold the number of sectors. But that would
> probably require a second stage loader.

That is fine.  None of the compressed images exceed 128KB.
The problem I had was a read error at the end.  So either
I had a bad floppy, which read back o.k. before I tried it.
Or there was a checksum error.

Eric