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

Good.

I may switch to 5.4 from now on...

YH

On 7/17/05, Timothy Legge <[email protected]> wrote:
> I made the original change that caused this:
> 
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/etherboot/etherboot/etherboot-5.3/src/core/Attic/osloader.c?r1=1.5&r2=1.6&diff_format=u
> 
> 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 <[email protected]> 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:[email protected]]
> >>Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:10 AM
> >>To: Steven J. Magnani
> >>Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> >>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 <[email protected]> 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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
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