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Date:      Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:16:48 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile
Message-ID:  <200402271016.48893.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200402271410.i1REA99f059346@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200402271410.i1REA99f059346@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Friday 27 February 2004 09:10 am, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> ru          2004/02/27 06:10:09 PST
>
>   FreeBSD src repository
>
>   Modified files:
>     sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile
>   Log:
>   For some reason crt0.o needs to be linked first for pxeboot(8) to
>   work.  This is odd because loader(8) doesn't suffer from this problem.
>   Perhaps pxeboot bootstrap can be fixed to handle this better.
>   Anyway, PXE booting should work again.

pxeboot, cdboot, and btxldr all make the same assumptions about how the a.out 
loader is laid out so they can extract BTX and use it to bootstrap into the 
loader proper.

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