Acked-by: Ronald G. Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 9/5/07, Alex Beregszaszi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > when outputting ELF segments in LAR, the utility will use the segment > number from ELF as segment number in the file. This works nicely when > there are no skips (e.g. not PT_LOAD segments, which are discarded). > > If one segment is skipped, we get a bump: > > normal/payload0/segment0 (27288 bytes, lzma compressed to 14506 bytes > @0x64c0) > normal/payload0/segment2 (211136 bytes, lzma compressed to 70905 bytes > @0x9dc0) > > The LAR loader wont load segment2, and in this particular case, grub2-lb > will only boot into rescue mode (segment0 contains it). > > Attached patch adds a counter for segment number in the LAR utility to > solve this bug: > > normal/payload0/segment0 (27288 bytes, lzma compressed to 14506 bytes > @0x64c0) > normal/payload0/segment1 (211136 bytes, lzma compressed to 70905 bytes > @0x9dc0) > > Also the eagle eyed can see that I merged in Uwe's multiple-payload > patch into current stage1, which includes the segment support. And this > means that grub2-lb without any hacks works when loaded from LAR > segments. > > -- > Alex > > > -- > linuxbios mailing list > linuxbios@linuxbios.org > http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
