[syslinux] without msdos filesystem

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Fri Feb 2 14:19:16 PST 2007


On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:44:57PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > BTW ... I have to recompile (make) syslinux each time in order to 
> > rebuild all binaries, else I get 'Floating point exception' after 
> > starting ./unix/syslinux. My syslinux doesn't use direct mount.
> 
> You're getting a division by zero somehow.  Since it goes away on 
> rebuild it'd be hard to debug, but I might be able to send you a binary 
> to run under gdb.

Where are you building the packages?

Fedora Core 6 had a number of changes that caused its binaries to die
with 'Floating point exception' if run on older systems. I suspected the
new DT_GNU_HASH was the cause, but I never tested.

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lfr
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