[OpenBIOS] Openbios crashes 2

[Blue Swirl]

>Obviously my last post was not clear enough. I have extracted and compiled
>the tar of the previous version in SVN, which is reported as directory
>revision 87. I can successfully boot the Debian install iso and the Solaris
>install iso starts booting but crashes later, as expected. However, if I
>extract and build the latest version, reported as directory revision 114, 
>it
>crashes straight away. The exact error reported is "Floating point
>exception".  This is all on linux 2.6.9.
>
>If I remove the latest patches to obio.c, and then try and boot, I then get
>"Unsupported image format".
>
>If I remove the latest patches to esp.c, everything seems to be as it used
>to be.

This is probably caused by the disabling the interpose, and that makes the 
disk label support act differently. I think the patches should be reverted 
until more correct fixes are developed.

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