On Saturday, 27. October 2001 03:19, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net> writes: > > Hi Eric, > > > > just tested the new memtest-2.8 release. > > Tried with etherboot-5.0.2 and 5.0.4.fd0, both with same result: > > memtest.img (ELF)... segment below 0x10000 > > -> back to bootmenu > > > > After setting LOW_TEST_ADR to 0x010000 in defs.h, it finally works. > > > > GREAT! May consider this as the default, or does it any harm > > anywhere else? Otherwise, I think, this is worth a note in the docs. > > Probably. When I rebuilt the build process the goal was to have it as > much the same as possible. The only thing to double check is > the normal boot case and see if it still works. Checked normal boot case: runs fine. The only thing, I can imagine, is the RAM <= 64K case. But this is very rare, nowadays.. > Go ahead and submit the patch. I just wanted something that would work. > > Eric ... that take at least my high esteem. Capeau. Wouldn't call it a patch, but for the sake of completeness: diff attached Cheers, FrisPete
--- defs.h.orig Wed Aug 8 07:26:42 2001 +++ defs.h Sat Oct 27 12:16:00 2001 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ * Unlike earlier versions all of the settings are in defs.h * so the build process should be more robust. */ -#define LOW_TEST_ADR 0x01000 /* Final adrs for test code */ +#define LOW_TEST_ADR 0x010000 /* Final adrs for test code */ #define HIGH_TEST_ADR 0x110000 /* Relocation base address */ #define MAIN_SIZE 0x9000 /* Estimated size of primary test code */ #define TEST_SIZE (2*MAIN_SIZE) /* Total test size */
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