Re: [LinuxBIOS] Distros

[Steven James]

Greetings,

I had the same issue with FC3, but it resolved when I reduced the size of
the code a bit. For some reason, Fedora's objcopy apparently misses the
real error and then has another problem.

G'day,
sjames

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On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 [e-mail] wrote:
> Quoting Corey Osgood :
> > [e-mail] wrote:
> > > No, I think I am going to just try Gentoo though. It's time for a
> > > change, I have been using Fedora/Redhat for many years. And I have
> > >  heard great things about Gentoo.
> > >
> > > Thanks - Joe
> >
> > Well, just for the record, I've intalled FC6 x86 in QEMU from the DVD
> > iso, and tried both with and without SELinux enabled, and I had
> > absolutely no build errors on several targets (via epia, asus p2b, and
> > a couple tyan boards). I didn't even have to turn off stack protectors,
> > and this is a fully updated system. I'm not sure where your error was
> > coming from or even what it was, sorry. Enjoy Gentoo, cya again in a
> > week or so when you're done compiling the base system ;)
> >
> > -Corey
>
> Hmm very strange. Both Ron and I tried it on FC5 and FC6 with no luck??
> This was the error:
>
> cp linuxbios_ram.nrv2b linuxbios_ram.rom
> echo '/*ldoptions*/' > ldscript.ld; cat ldoptions >> ldscript.ld ; for
> file in  /root/LinuxBIOSv2-2564/src/arch/i386/init/ldscript.lb
> /root/LinuxBIOSv2-2564/src//cpu/x86/16bit/entry16.lds
> /root/LinuxBIOSv2-2564/src//cpu/x86/32bit/entry32.lds
> /root/LinuxBIOSv2-2564/src//cpu/x86/32bit/reset32.lds
> /root/LinuxBIOSv2-2564/src//arch/i386/lib/id.lds ; do echo /* $file
> */ >> ldscript.ld; cat $file >> ldscript.ld ; done
> gcc -m32 -nostdlib -nostartfiles -static -o linuxbios -T ldscript.ld crt0.o
> nm -n linuxbios | sort > linuxbios.map
> objcopy --gap-fill 0xff -O binary linuxbios linuxbios.strip
> objcopy: linuxbios.strip: Bad value
> objcopy: linuxbios.strip: Bad value
> make[1]: *** [linuxbios.strip] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/root/LinuxBIOSv2-2564/targets/rca/rm4100/rm4100/normal'
> make: *** [normal/linuxbios.rom] Error 1
>
> Maybe I will try a fresh install of FC6???
>
> Thanks - Joe