Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:58:50 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Booting linux using Novell NetWare Remote Program Loader |
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Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi! > >>>>I removed the autoprobing from bootsect.S and fixed it to 1.44MB format >>>>et voila, it worked perfectly. >>>> >>>Do you have patch to do that? >>> >>I have a patch for 2.0.x only. But it should be enough to change the >>disksizes table at the end of bootsect.S to: >> >>disksizes: .byte 18,18,18,18 >> > > Yep, tried that. No more crc errors when decompressing. Instead, > sudden reboot when it finishes loading. OOps. > > This is 486sx/25 booting from network. Kernel is 2.4.9, compiled with > math emu, and processor=386. Any ideas what is wrong? > Pavel
Am I guessing correctly that this RPL thing is a floppy image emulator? Then it probably becomes a matter of where that image lives (in memory, if so where; or on the network and downloaded sector by sector.) You may want to try to make a SYSLINUX image and see if it works.
-hpa
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