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

[Timothy Legge]

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
> > >
> > > LinuxBIOS mailing list
> > > [e-mail]
> > > http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
>
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