Andrew Ip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > Most likely what is caused by binutils?

To be clear, the messages:
| Unknown bootloader class!
| type=0x000101C0
| data=0x000103BE
| Firmware type: LinuxBIOS
Are printed by the code in mkelfImage when it is loaded under a bootloader
it does not recognize and are non-fatal.

> I don't know what's exactly causing the problem.  However, my problem went away
> when I downgrade my binutils to 2.9.5 on my Debian system.  Similar problem
> happens on RH 7.2, but not on RH 7.3.

None of the binutils problems I know of trigger the previous symptom.  If they
can I would like to know about it.

As an additional data point mkelfImage-1.14 has been fixed so that it works
on RH 7.2 and it has been tested there.  Additionaly the fix was such that
mkelfImage is not pushing the limits of ld so binutils buts should go from
being common to being very, very, unlikely and rare.

Given that I believe I have fixed the underling problem people being confident
that any issue must be a binutils problem worry me.

Eric

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