On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:03:37AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > /* FIXME: Should we support program headers at strange locations? */ > > if (ehdr->e_phoff + ehdr->e_phnum * ehdr->e_phentsize > MULTIBOOT_SEARCH) > > return grub_error (GRUB_ERR_BAD_OS, "program header at a too high > > offset"); > > > > This breaks self-boot in the LinuxBIOS target. Moving the Program header > > (see attached patch) fixed it, with no apparent drawbacks or regressions in > > any of the ELF loaders around (tested on LinuxBIOS ELF loader and Efika OF). > > I assume this was with LinuxBIOSv3 and Qemu?
Yes. > We tried the same but the patch was a lot bigger, trying to actually > leave space in the beginning. Your patch might be enough, that would be > really nice. That's the question. Do we really have to add more space, or is that space already allocated for us? > I didn't really get the sense behind the layers of grub > magic around read() and write(). They're basicaly like pread() and pwrite() with the added functionality of a verbose mode. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
