[syslinux] Checking CRC (of bzImage) before loading

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 16:10:02 PDT 2014


On Mar 19, 2014 5:22 PM, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:

> Or we could make the Linux loader (load_linux.c) throw an error on a bad
> CRC, which is probably a good idea anyway.  Then the ONERROR option can
> be used for the fallback.
>
>         -hpa

Sounds like an excellent idea.  Should linux.c32 get an override option (in
case of a non-compliant kernel-like binary)?

--Gene


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