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Date:      Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:04:04 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD current mailing list <current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: pxeloader problem: BTX halted [FIXED]
Message-ID:  <20040227160404.GA3844@ip.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <200402271055.21012.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20040227080713.GC93889@ip.net.ua> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0402271222490.42571@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net> <20040227141544.GA2242@ip.net.ua> <200402271055.21012.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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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?
>=20
> cdboot, pxeldr, and btxldr all make assumptions about how the loader is=
=20
> linked.  In fact, cdboot and pxeldr share the same exact code in this=20
> respect.  Did you test cdboot without this fix to see if it had been brok=
en,=20
> too?
>=20
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,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru@FreeBSD.org

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