Re: http protocol and a unknown image type causes a reboot

On Aug 28, 2005, at 6:33 PM, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> It only fails (reboots) if you try booting with http, and works ok  
> if you
> try to boot via tftp.

This is an interesting bug.  I'm sure we can debug this if it is  
reproducible, which it should be.  It doesn't seem like it should be  
happening, but that's how bugs are sometimes.

Sometime ago somebody sent in patch that implemented a debug-monitor  
inside of Etherboot, which might useful for debugging this sort of  
thing.  It would be neat to be able to step through the boot process  
and inspect various things as we go.

So, don't let us forget this bug.  At the moment I'm very focussed on  
5.4.1, and getting out the large number of fixes and improvements in  
the queue.  Once that is done, I think debugging this would be both  
useful, and educational.

Thanks for pointing it out.

Marty

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