[syslinux] [PATCH] Update diag/mbr instruction to match the current filename.

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Sat May 26 14:30:40 PDT 2012


On May 26, 2012 5:03 PM, <jc at eclis.ch> wrote:
>
> From: Jean-Christian de Rivaz <jc at eclis.ch>
>
> I suspect that some instructions about how to use the diag/mbr was not
> updated when the source file was renamed to handoff.S. Here is a simple
> proposition to fix that.
>
> Jean-Christian de Rivaz
> ---
>  diag/mbr/README    |    4 ++--
>  diag/mbr/handoff.S |    4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/diag/mbr/README b/diag/mbr/README
> index fb7a7dd..080d65b 100644
> --- a/diag/mbr/README
> +++ b/diag/mbr/README

Nack.  This section of README is _not_ specific to handoff.bin.  I use as a
generic name of an MBR.

> diff --git a/diag/mbr/handoff.S b/diag/mbr/handoff.S
> index 7af3fde..ab8582b 100644
> --- a/diag/mbr/handoff.S
> +++ b/diag/mbr/handoff.S
> @@ -43,11 +43,11 @@
>  * Install instructions (assuming your target is /dev/dev; file or block
device):
>  *
>  * MBR:
> - * dd conv=notrunc bs=440 count=1 if=mbr_ho.bin of=/dev/dev
> + * dd conv=notrunc bs=440 count=1 if=handoff.bin of=/dev/dev
>  *
>  * VBR/PBR (should work for FAT12/16/32, ext[234]fs, btrfs):
>  * echo -en "\0353\0130\0220" |dd conv=notrunc bs=1 count=3 of=/dev/dev
> - * dd conv=notrunc bs=2 count=210 seek=45 if=mbr_ho.bin of=/dev/dev
> + * dd conv=notrunc bs=2 count=210 seek=45 if=handoff.bin of=/dev/dev
>  */
>
>  // #define DEBUG_MARKER1       /* Insert markers in binary */
> --
> 1.7.2.5

Ack.  I did rename it during development.  Thanks!

Jean-Christian, I'll prepare this patch with you as author and signoff on
it unless you'd rather make it fetchable.

--Gene



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