Ok, promising update: I disabled "GRUB" in the config file, hoping that would ignore the menu.lst, which it did, and it then gave me a boot prompt, and most amazing of all, it doesn't lock up when I type at it :-D
So, step two is figure out how to get it to boot something. > It may even be that I've just embedded the menu.lst file incorrectly - > how does everyone else embed theirs? It worries me that half the > contents of the menu.lst file along with some garbage is dumped over > the serial port before the debug messages start appearing. I tried embedding a Linux kernel in the same manner as the menu.lst, but I got a warning that I was overwriting stack space in the ELF file, so that may explain the problem I was having before. However I now tried to get the kernel image to load at 0x400000, and readelf shows that everything is what I expect it to be, however FILO says it doesn't recognise the image at that offset (when I do it as ELF or a straight bzImage.) So now I'm stuck again, but it looks like it's my method of embedding files into the ELF image that's the problem - can someone point me in the right direction here? Google's not being too helpful for me with this. Thanks, Adam. collect_sys_info: boot eax = 0x100000 collect_sys_info: boot ebx = 0x800 collect_sys_info: boot arg = 0x4254 collect_linuxbios_info: Searching for LinuxBIOS tables... Can't get memory map from firmware. Using hardcoded default. malloc_diag: alloc: 0 bytes (0 blocks), free: 16376 bytes (1 blocks) malloc_diag: alloc: 40 bytes (1 blocks), free: 16336 bytes (1 blocks) collect_sys_info: 0000000000000000-00000000000a0000 collect_sys_info: 0000000000100000-0000000001000000 collect_sys_info: RAM 16 MB relocate: Current location: 0x100040-0x280ea7 relocate: Relocating to 0xe7f190-0xfffff7... ok setup_timers: CPU 134 MHz pci_init: Scanning PCI: found 7 devices malloc_diag: alloc: 136 bytes (2 blocks), free: 16240 bytes (1 blocks) pci_init: 00:00.0 8086:7100 0600 00 pci_init: 00:06.0 8086:1229 0200 00 pci_init: 00:07.0 8086:7110 0601 00 pci_init: 00:07.1 8086:7111 0101 80 pci_init: 00:07.2 8086:7112 0c03 00 pci_init: 00:07.3 8086:7113 0680 00 pci_init: 00:08.0 5333:8904 0300 00 Press <Enter> for default boot, or <Esc> for boot prompt... timed out boot: [EMAIL PROTECTED] malloc_diag: alloc: 160 bytes (3 blocks), free: 16216 bytes (1 blocks) malloc_diag: alloc: 184 bytes (4 blocks), free: 16192 bytes (1 blocks) file_open: [EMAIL PROTECTED], path=<NULL> parse_device_name: offset=0x400000 length=0x0 devopen: after offset: start 8192, length 8380416 malloc_diag: alloc: 160 bytes (3 blocks), free: 16216 bytes (1 blocks) elf_load: Not a bootable ELF image malloc_diag: alloc: 184 bytes (4 blocks), free: 16192 bytes (1 blocks) file_open: [EMAIL PROTECTED], path=<NULL> devopen: already open malloc_diag: alloc: 160 bytes (3 blocks), free: 16216 bytes (1 blocks) load_linux_header: Not a Linux kernel image Unsupported image format malloc_diag: alloc: 136 bytes (2 blocks), free: 16240 bytes (1 blocks) boot: [EMAIL PROTECTED],0x200000 malloc_diag: alloc: 168 bytes (3 blocks), free: 16208 bytes (1 blocks) malloc_diag: alloc: 200 bytes (4 blocks), free: 16176 bytes (1 blocks) file_open: [EMAIL PROTECTED],0x200000, path=<NULL> parse_device_name: offset=0x400000 length=0x200000 devopen: after offset: start 8192, length 8380416 devopen: after length: length 4096 malloc_diag: alloc: 168 bytes (3 blocks), free: 16208 bytes (1 blocks) elf_load: Not a bootable ELF image malloc_diag: alloc: 200 bytes (4 blocks), free: 16176 bytes (1 blocks) file_open: [EMAIL PROTECTED],0x200000, path=<NULL> devopen: already open malloc_diag: alloc: 168 bytes (3 blocks), free: 16208 bytes (1 blocks) load_linux_header: Not a Linux kernel image Unsupported image format malloc_diag: alloc: 136 bytes (2 blocks), free: 16240 bytes (1 blocks) boot: -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
