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Date:      Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:39:41 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile
Message-ID:  <20040227153941.GA3538@ip.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <200402271016.48893.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200402271410.i1REA99f059346@repoman.freebsd.org> <200402271016.48893.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 10:16:48AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> pxeboot, cdboot, and btxldr all make the same assumptions about how the a=
=2Eout=20
> loader is laid out so they can extract BTX and use it to bootstrap into t=
he=20
> loader proper.
>=20
Hmm, then how can you explain that /boot/loader worked with this
change, but /boot/pxeboot didn't?


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru@FreeBSD.org

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