Re: [Etherboot-users] Re: [LinuxBIOS] etherboot with LinuxBIOS

[yhlu]

Good.

I may switch to 5.4 from now on...

YH

On 7/17/05, Timothy Legge  wrote:
> I made the original change that caused this:
>
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/etherboot/etherboot/etherboot-5.3/src/...
>
> At the time the change was made to fix an issue that was reported to
> cause Etherboot to fail to boot some kernels.  IIRC, EB failed to
> recognize that the kernel download was complete.  However, the fix seems
> to have broken memtest and FreeBSD.
>
> From my point of view the this patch should be accepted to revert to
> the original functionality.  I think this may cause the original problem
> that I tried to correct to reappear but that may help someone fix the
> real problem correctly this time.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> yhlu wrote:
> > Great,
> >
> > Tim, Can you verify that?
> >
> > YH
> >
> > On 7/15/05, Steven J. Magnani  wrote:
> > > I think this patch fixes the bug.
> > >
> > > --- etherboot-5.4.0/src/core/osloader.c.orig    2005-02-15
> > > 19:46:56.000000000 -0600
> > > +++ etherboot-5.4.0/src/core/osloader.c 2005-07-15 14:13:39.234375000
> > > -0500
> > > @@ -350,10 +350,11 @@
> > >       else {
> > >               len -= (skip_sectors << 9) + skip_bytes;
> > >               data += (skip_sectors << 9) + skip_bytes;
> > >           skip_sectors = os_download(data, len, eof);
> > >           skip_bytes = 0;
> > > }
> > >   skip_sectors = os_download(data, len, eof);
> > >   skip_bytes = 0;
> > > return 1;
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > > Steve Magnani
> > > www.digidescorp.com
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: yhlu [mailto:[e-mail]]
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:10 AM
> > > To: Steven J. Magnani
> > > Cc: [e-mail]; [e-mail]
> > > Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] etherboot with LinuxBIOS
> > >
> > > do not use 5.4 at this time, because the memtest can not be loaded by
> > > Etherboot 5.4 correctly.
> > >
> > > YH
> > >
> > > On 7/14/05, Steven J. Magnani  wrote:
> > > > Etherboot 5.4.0 seems to compile with gcc-3.4.3 if, in addition to the
> > > > config changes spelled out on the Wiki, you also comment out PXE
> > > > support in src/Config:
> > > >
> > > > # Etherboot as a PXE network protocol ROM
> > > > #CFLAGS+=       -DPXE_IMAGE -DPXE_EXPORT
> > > >
> > > > Seems to run, but I haven't reached a point where I can boot something
> > > > over the network yet.
> > > >
> > > > Steve
> > > > www.digidescorp.com
> > > >
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