From: Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com>
This patch allows build.c to write out the full system size to the
bootsector for system sizes larger than about 1 MB (1048560 bytes) by using
another byte (a 4th byte would allow system sizes larger than 268 MB).
Signed-off-by: Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---
arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c~i386-buildc-write-out-larger-system-size-to-bootsector arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c
--- devel/arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c~i386-buildc-write-out-larger-system-size-to-bootsector 2005-08-08 22:23:04.000000000 -0700
+++ devel-akpm/arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c 2005-08-08 22:23:04.000000000 -0700
@@ -177,7 +177,8 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv)
die("Output: seek failed");
buf[0] = (sys_size & 0xff);
buf[1] = ((sys_size >> 8) & 0xff);
- if (write(1, buf, 2) != 2)
+ buf[2] = ((sys_size >> 16) & 0xff);
+ if (write(1, buf, 3) != 3)
die("Write of image length failed");
return 0; /* Everything is OK */
_