etherboot dosen't find my elfkernel

[Eric W. Biederman]

Richard Smith <rsmith at bitworks.com> writes:

> Richard Smith wrote:
> 
> >> For a pure test case it is possible to just dd the ELF image onto the start
> >> of the disk.  If you don't need partitions.  That is the way Ron is currently
> 
> >> using the code.
> > Thanks I'll give that a try.  I also see just where fdisk put the 1st
> > partition.
> 
> Ok... I'm booting now.  Erik your hunch was correct.  /dev/hda1 must have been
> outside the 8k section.  I'm not really sure how to read fdisk's info and
> translate it into a physical offset on the disk but going directly to /dev/hda
> worked.

In the normal case just change the units to sectors.  The 'u' command.  A single
sector is 512 bytes or 1/2 KiloByte.

> Although Ron's dd command gave me an "Invalid argument /dev/hde" it appears to
> have written the data on to the disk as I can boot and the partitition table is
> still intact.

Good.

Eric