Hi,
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 21:23 -0700, ron minnich wrote:
can someone with an XP license try to recreate Alex's fine work? The more people we get to try this, the better!
I'm interested in trying this on my machine, but I have a couple of questions for you.
- Can I use LinuxBIOS -> FILO -> ADLO? a. It seems like since ADLO is an elf file, this should work, but I
get an error "Unsupported file format" b. This would be the easiest path for me, since I wouldn't have to re-flash my ROM
I am not familiar how FILO loads and starts an image, but one thing comes to my mind: the ELF is a minimalistic one, with lar in mind, it has only program headers and no section headers. Maybe this is a problem for FILO.
Do the old ADLO images loaded for you?
I used your BIOS-bochs-legacy with the 64k elf header from the repository and your BIOS-bochs-latest with the 129k elf header.
Here is the output from the serial console for the 64k version:
hdb1:/boot/adlo.legacy.elf hda: LBA: IC35L020AVER07-0 hdb: LBA: WDC WD800JB-00JJC0 Mounted ext2fs Loading image... Loaded 66560 bytes in 55ms (1210KB/s) Jumping to entry point... BIOS entry. FATAL: Keyboard error:31
With the 129k version I get no output from the BIOS:
Enter boot: hdb1:/boot/adlo.elf hda: LBA: IC35L020AVER07-0 hdb: LBA: WDC WD800JB-00JJC0 Mounted ext2fs Loading image... Loaded 132096 bytes in 111ms (1190KB/s) Jumping to entry point...
Both of these got farther than the simpler elf.
Myles