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Szustarol



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Szustarol 06 Mar 2017, 19:04
Hi!
I somehow encounter a triple fault when loading ELF header
Code of my second stage bootloader is here:
https://github.com/cuaox/RIOS/blob/master/BOOTLOADER/stage2.asm
with jmp $ i have noticed that if i place it before the loop directive it is not crashing, so why is the loop .loadloop triple faulting my OS?
Thanks for any help
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revolution
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revolution 07 Mar 2017, 02:12
You have altered rcx within the loop with this line:
Code:
mov rcx, r10    
So when you get to the loop instruction rcx is zero.
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Szustarol



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Szustarol 07 Mar 2017, 15:44
Okay but before I do this, I do
mov r15, rcx
and then I
mov rcx, r15

so its value should be restored, shouldn't it?
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revolution 07 Mar 2017, 16:47
Okay, I didn't see that.

Maybe your ELF file is malformed, or maybe you are reading the wrong addresses, or checking for the wrong values? Not sure. I can't run the code to check.
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Szustarol



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Szustarol 07 Mar 2017, 20:00
So i have updated my repo.
I am sure it crashes at loop
rcx is fffffffffffffffe hex when the loop jumps so i guess thats the problem
any ideas?
I have no idea why the rcx is loaded wrongly

can you take a look at my makefile?
I dont think elf is malformed
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alkap 08 Mar 2017, 10:00
Not sure this is it, but I've noticed that your offsets are all 8 bytes except for the mov r10. is that by design, or an oversight?
Code:
mov r8, [rsi + 8]
mov r9, [rsi + 0x10]
mov r10, [rsi + 0x20] ; 16-byte offset
mov r11, [rsi + 0x28]
    
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