[syslinux] Re: mboot.c32, weird e820 map on HP blade machine, possible memory corruption

[Tim Deegan]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 01:23:20PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> One thing I think in particular might be important is to set eflags, 
> which mboot.c currently doesn't do.  eflags set to a random value is 
> usually bad news.

Good point.  I'm surprised that didn't cause trouble before now.
So the (hopefully) final patch for the new version is at

 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~tjd21/tmp/mboot-0.2.patch

I've included Ram's section-header code and the memset(0) calls.  I'm
leaving out the code to print numbers for progress since that kind of
thing can be annoying on slow/broken consoles and in log files.

Cheers,

Tim.

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Tim Deegan                           (My opinions, not the University's)
Systems Research Group
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory