Hi, good news, but I cannot test your fix because I'm not able to compile a working arcboot binary. I've tried self-compilation with cgg 3.3 and 3.4 and neither worked (the binary was about 500K large and did nothing). I've tried cross-compilation, but it did not complete. The only working binary I was able to acquire was unpacked from the debian package. But kernel crashed with that anyways (I've tried only 64-bit kernels so far). It would be very helpfull for me if you could enlighten me with the instructions to compile arcboot: which gcc version should I use and which tricks shall I apply to get it to compile. Or you may just send me the binary (or put it out on your Internet site). Or you can do both :-)) Regards, Max On Monday 16 August 2004 19:41, Kaj-Michael Lang wrote: > Hi > > Played with arcboot today and fixed (for me atleast) loading of 32-bit > kernels. > I've also added a very simple progress thing so you know something is > happening when > the kernel is loaded. > Anyway, the patch can be found here: > http://fairytale.tal.org/pub/talinux/patches/arcboot-O2boot-and-progress.pa >tch > > The fix was quite simple, arcboot was loading the kernel over itself, the > - .base = 0x80004000, > + .base = 0x80002000, > > change is the actual fix. 64-bit kernels loads fine after the fix. > > There is some extra stuff (a patch from gentoo, removal debuging from e2fs > lib, etc) too..
