Re: LynxOS 4.2 x86 KDI Support

Hi Thomas,

I simply used Etherboot as it has explicit support for KDIs. Am just not sure whether the same
is true for gPXE?

Cheers Steve.

Thomas Miletich wrote:
> Hello
> Is there a specific reason why you use etherboot? Etherboot is
> unsupported and you should use gPXE, unless you have a really good
> reason not to do so.
> I couldn't find much information about the KDI format and I can't tell
> if it's even directly loadable by etherboot.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Steve Osselton<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am using Etherboot 5.4.4 to attempt to boot a LynxOS KDI image (built with
>> AOUT_LYNX_KDI defined).
>> It downloads fine but won't load. I have enabled debugging in osloader.c and
>> get:
>>
>> About to prepare segment [98001020,980ADAC8)
>>
>> segment [98001020,980ADAC8) does not fit in any memory region
>> Memory regions(8):
>> [0000000000000600, 000000000002F400) type 1
>> [0000000000100000, 000000001FF77000) type 1
>> <abort>
>>
>> Looks like an address mapping problem. Anyone had any experience with doing
>> this?
>>
>> Cheers Steve.
>>
>>
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