On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 08:17:21AM -0500, steven james wrote:
I don't think it's the compression here. I have a working BIOS built from CVS on 11/05/2002. I don't think it matters to this, but I did hack zkernel_start on the fallback image to be fff00000 and modify the linker script to hard code the primary image at fffe0000 - 8.
OK, well I was doing a bunch of things wrong. But I'm getting closer.
First, CVS is using the linuxbios table, but Eric's etherboot-5.1.0 patch does not include it. It is in the 5.0.5 patchset.
Doing that, etherboot loads the kernel, and jumps to it. I've applied Eric's linux-2.4.18-pre7.linuxbios.diff on top of 2.4.20-rc1.
The mkelfImage-1.18 startup code prints "LinuxBIOS" and then does nothing.
Should I be applying a more recent patch to my kernel? Do I need other patches?
My next step is to sprinkle the mkelfImage header with debugging puts() and the kernel startup with early_printk.
Thanks for your help.
-Bill