bootselect problems

Adam Agnew agnew at cs.umd.edu
Sat Aug 23 03:16:02 CEST 2003


Stupid user error! I managed to sneak an extra byte into my tags :) Sorry
for the false bug report.

- Adam Agnew

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Adam Agnew wrote:

>
> Hi, has anyone tried out Steven James' baremetal toolkit / bootselect and
> run into this problem?
>
> I put a 16 byte 'tag' before each payload. My tags have the standard
> '$TAG$' beginning, then 0x00 to show that there will be no more additional
> 16 byte tag blocks on that payload, then four 0x00s because the payload
> size is optional, and then 6 characters for the name. Maybe the payload
> size isn't option after all?
>
> I got bootselect out of a three month old cvs because it doesn't currently
> compile.
>
> Welcome to the LinuxLabs boot chooser!
> Found LinuxBIOS table at: 500
>    210:init_bytes() - zkernel_start:0xfff00000  zkernel_mask:0x0000ffff
>     71:rom_read_bytes() - overflowed source buffer. max_block = 15
> Loading tag 0 @ 00000000
> Tag contents: 24 54 41 47 24 00 00 00 00 00 6d 65 6d 38 36 20
> TAG block count = 0
> init_bytes found 2 tags
>     71:rom_read_bytes() - overflowed source buffer. max_block = 15
> Loading tag 0 @ 00000000
> Tag contents: 24 54 41 47 24 00 00 00 00 00 6d 65 6d 38 36 20
> TAG block count = 0
> Stream count = 2 blocks
> STREAM: 0. mem86
> STREAM: 1. e1000
> Choose a stream: Loading tag 1 @ 00010ee0
> Tag contents: 24 54 41 47 24 00 00 00 00 00 65 31 30 30 30 20
> TAG block count = 0
>
> Welcome to elfboot, the open sourced starter.
> January 2002, Eric Biederman.
> Version 1.2
>
> Cannot Load ELF Image
>
>
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