Re: pxeloader problem: BTX halted [FIXED]

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:04:04 +0200
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 10:55:20AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 27 February 2004 09:15 am, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I have ended up setting up the test PXE booting environment
> > here, and have been able to reproduce and fix this problem,
> > in sys/boot/i386/loader/Makefile,v 1.76.
> >
> > For some reason, for pxeboot(8) to work, BTX's crt0.o needs
> > to be linked before other object files into the loader(8)
> > binary.  This is odd because loader(8) doesn't suffer from
> > this problem, so perhaps pxeldr ASM bootstrap code could be
> > fixed to handle this better.  John?
> 
> cdboot, pxeldr, and btxldr all make assumptions about how the loader is 
> linked.  In fact, cdboot and pxeldr share the same exact code in this 
> respect.  Did you test cdboot without this fix to see if it had been broken, 
> too?
> 
Nope, but perhaps somebody could try it and report back if

ftp://current.FreeBSD.org//pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/ISO-IMAGES/cdboot-5.2-CURRENT-20040225-JPSNAP.iso

can be CD-booted?


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru_at_FreeBSD.org

Received on Fri Feb 27 2004 - 07:04:13 UTC

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