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
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