Oh, and if you're really creative, you can actually take that "trash" in the MBR, and make it jump to a specific location in memory . . . before the OS even loads. Hopefully, we all understand what that means ;)
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:16 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > *Segfault. What has that got to do with the ROM not recognizing a >> partition table?* >> > > What Robert said above, but also not necessarily segfault. It's undefined > behavior, as in no one can say what will happen, until it happens. There > *is* a very good chance it'll segfault, but there is a chance said code > could seem to work fine, or even fail silently. I've seen all three cases > personally. > > So we have no idea how the OP's media was cleared, when attempting to put > the first, and second stage bootloaders on that media. But it seems to be > clear that the MBR contained trash from a previous partition table. Or > simply just trash. > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Carl Krieder <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Segfault. What has that got to do with the ROM not recognizing a >>> partition table? >>> >> >> Everything... The boot ROM is pretty basic..if you have noise/etc >> anywhere where the bootrom expects "something"... (it's normally looking >> for a short header) >> >> Well, the bootrom can get lost pretty easily.. >> >> As long as you: >> >> 1: /dev/zero the first 1MB of the drive >> 2: create your partition table ignoring the first 1MB >> 3: dd the MLO/u-boot.img into the first 1MB >> >> You can have pretty much 'any' rootfs format that u-boot supports... >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Robert Nelson >> https://rcn-ee.com/ >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
