iPXE currently pads initrd images to a multiple of 4kB and inserts
zero padding between images, as required by some versions of the Linux
kernel. The overall length reported via the ramdisk_size field in the
bzImage header includes this zero padding.
This causes problems when using memdisk to load a gzip-compressed disk
image. memdisk treats the ramdisk_size field as containing the exact
length of the initrd image, and uses this length to locate the 8-byte
gzip footer. This will generally cause memdisk to fail to decompress
the disk image.
Fix by reporting the exact length of the initrd image set, including
any padding inserted between images but excluding any padding added at
the end of the final image.
Reported-by: Levente LEVAI <levail@aviatronic.hu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some versions of Linux apparently complain if initrds are not aligned
to a page boundary. Fix by changing INITRD_ALIGN from 4 bytes to 4096
bytes.
The amount of padding at the end of each initrd will now often be
sufficient to allow the cpio header to be prepended without crossing
an alignment boundary. The final location of the initrd may therefore
end up being slightly higher than the post-shuffle location.
bzimage_load_initrd() must therefore now copy the initrd body prior to
copying the cpio header, otherwise the start of the initrd body may be
overwritten by the cpio header. (Note that the guarantee that an
initrd will never need to overwrite an initrd at a higher location
still holds, since the overall length of each initrd cannot decrease
as a result of adding a cpio header.)
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
At present, loading a bzImage via iPXE requires enough RAM to hold two
copies of each initrd file. Remove this constraint by rearranging the
initrds in place.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow the file mode to be specified using a "mode=" command line
parameter. For example:
initrd http://web/boot/bootlocal.sh /opt/bootlocal.sh mode=755
Requested-by: Bryce Zimmerman <bryce.zimmerman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The setup_move_size field is not defined in protocol versions earlier
than 2.00 (and is obsolete in versions later than 2.01). In binaries
using versions earlier than 2.00, the relevant location is likely to
contain executable code.
Interestingly, this bug has been present since support for pre-2.00
protocol versions was added in 2009, and has been unexpectedly
modifying the memtest86+ code fragment:
mov $0x92, %dx
inb %dx, %al
Fortuitously, the modification exactly overwrote the value loaded into
%dx, and so the net effect was limited to causing Fast Gate A20
detection to always fail.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Refactor the {load,exec} image operations as {probe,exec}. This makes
the probe mechanism cleaner, eliminates some forward declarations,
avoids holding magic state in image->priv, eliminates the possibility
of screwing up between the "load" and "exec" stages, and makes the
documentation simpler since the concept of "loading" (as distinct from
"executing") no longer needs to be explained.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Remove the concept of shutdown exit flags, and replace it with a
counter used to keep track of exposed interfaces that require devices
to remain active.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Access to the gpxe.org and etherboot.org domains and associated
resources has been revoked by the registrant of the domain. Work
around this problem by renaming project from gPXE to iPXE, and
updating URLs to match.
Also update README, LOG and COPYRIGHTS to remove obsolete information.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
This allows gPXE to load memtest86, which is packaged as an old kernel.
Split all code that directly touches the kernel headers out into
bzimage_parse_header() and bzimage_update_header(), to reduce code
size and offset the cost of supporting older kernels.
Total cost of this feature: 11 bytes (uncompressed).
This brings us in to line with Linux definitions, and also simplifies
adding x86_64 support since both platforms have 2-byte shorts, 4-byte
ints and 8-byte long longs.
Add yet another ugly hack to iscsiboot.c, this time to allow the user to
inhibit the shutdown/removal of the iSCSI INT13 device (and the network
devices, since they are required for the iSCSI device to function).
On the plus side, the fact that shutdown() now takes flags to
differentiate between shutdown-for-exit and shutdown-for-boot means that
another ugly hack (to allow returning via the PXE stack on BIOSes that
have broken INT 18 calls) will be easier.
I feel dirty.
We can just treat all non-kernel images as initrds, which matches our
behaviour for multiboot kernels. This allows us to eliminate initrd as
an image type, and treat the "initrd" command as just another synonym for
"imgfetch".
2.6.22+ kernels have an extra field in the bzimage_header structure to
indicate the maximum permitted command-line length. Use this if it is
available.
byte, rather than the number of permissible bytes (i.e. subtract one
from the value under the previous definition to get the value under
the new definition).
This avoids integer overflow on 64-bit kernels, where
bzhdr.initrd_addr_max may be 0xffffffffffffffff; under the old
behaviour we set mem_limit equal to initrd_addr_max+1, which meant it
ended up as zero. Kernel loads would fail with ENOBUFS.
Michael Brown