Re: [Etherboot-developers] Problems Booting 5.1 cvs

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

> >I have tested the image you sent and it works fine.  Were there any
> >special settings?  What distro are you compiling on?  I think I will
> >upgrade my Linux distribution to Slackware 9.  
> 
> Just curious, what size is bin/start16.bin on your machine? It should be
> 112 bytes exactly. I remember that Eric had hardwired the number 112 in
> the Makefile. It might just be possible that your as makes it slightly
> different.

This just brought up a point I had not thought of.

There are some versions of binutils noticeably common in Redhat 7
in which as puts junk at the end of assembly files.  In start16.S
And possibly some of the others I count on being able to drop off
the end of an assembly file and have it work correctly.  With
a broken version of binutils/as this code may not work correctly.

Eric