[syslinux] Boot sector file testcases

Matt Fleming matt at console-pimps.org
Mon May 14 11:43:15 PDT 2012


On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 10:28 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/14/2012 12:42 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > Does anyone have a collection of bootable .bs, .bss, .bin and .img files
> > that I could use for testing the booting functionality on the elflink
> > branch? A copy of the files and config file lines should be enough to
> > produce a testcase.
> 
> It's not quite that simple.  Those files are highly interlinked with the
> rest of the media they are running on.
> 
> The simplest one is .0 for network, which you can simply do by
> re-loading pxelinux.0:
> 
> label restart
> 	pxe pxelinux.0
> 
> ... and it should be able to re-chain indefinitely.  

Yep, that test appears to work.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center




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