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My fork of git://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git, it is used for my netboot environment at home.
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Michael Brown 0fac055119 [bzimage] Report exact initrd length via bzImage header 
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>
2014-03-04 14:38:16 +00:00
contrib [errdb] Strip platform error code for non-platform-generated errors 2013-04-29 15:36:32 +01:00
src [bzimage] Report exact initrd length via bzImage header 2014-03-04 14:38:16 +00:00
COPYING Initial revision 2005-05-17 16:44:57 +00:00
COPYRIGHTS [build] Rename gPXE to iPXE 2010-04-19 23:43:39 +01:00
README [doc] Re-add README file 2010-05-28 00:03:47 +01:00

README 

iPXE README File

Quick start guide:

   cd src
   make

For any more detailed instructions, see http://ipxe.org