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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--jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAP2p0Ukv4P6juNwoRArphAJ45+PheLc2HRUwGzR0IFyTxkBpe2ACeN5t8 Fw1/1Cny2fnFKWsva/EoBzU= =PfNw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh--
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