Re: [Etherboot-developers] Problems Booting 5.1 cvs

[<ke...@us...>]

>retrieving revision 1.2
>diff -r1.2 boot1a.s
>72c72
>< blockcount:	.word	36			# if unmodified loads
>18kB
>---
>> blockcount:	.word 64				# if unmodified
>loads 18kB

That word is supposed to be modified by builddsk.pl to be the actual
count of blocks that have to be loaded. It sounds like the script didn't
work properly on your system.

I have half a mind to toss boot1a.s out and revert to floppyload.S which
definitely can load large files (since it's a hacked Linux floppy
loader). The only advantage of boot1a.s is that it can load from HD
partitions but I don't know that this feature gets used much since you'd
have to devote a whole partition to Etherboot. Also boot1a.s relies on
BIOS calls which may not be implemented everywhere.