Errors made it through!

[mr. x]

I'm using John Fines bootloader, but when I try to add some code to it I and assemble, I get this error message:

bootf.asm:355: panic: errors made it through from pass one

And no other error messages! Why is this?

[mr. xsism]

what the!? What assembler did you use??

[mr. x]

Oh, should have told you that
nasm.

[bubach]

what code do u add and where?

/ Christoffer

[mr. x]

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   mov    ah, 0x9
   mov   al, '*'
   mov   bh, 0
   mov   bl, 0x7
   mov   cx, 0
   int 0x10

The same result wherever I put it...

[HOS]

weird... do you have spaces/tabs before your instructions in your actual code, or are your instructions (ex "mov") at the very beginning of the line?

[Candy]

How about

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   mov    ah, 9h
   mov   al, '*'
   mov   bh, 0
   mov   bl, 7h
   mov   cx, 0
   int 10h

?

[mr. x]

How about

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   mov    ah, 9h
   mov   al, '*'
   mov   bh, 0
   mov   bl, 7h
   mov   cx, 0
   int 10h

?

Still "Errors made it through from pass one"

[Candy]

Could you post the code so we can take a look at it?

[ASHLEY4]

In the readme file does it not say what the error code means or is that number a pointer?.

ASHLEY4.

[Pype.Clicker]

never heard of such an error code either. What version of nasm is it ? did you checked for more recent/stable ones ?

[bubach]

How about

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   mov    ah, 9h
   mov   al, '*'
   mov   bh, 0
   mov   bl, 7h
   mov   cx, 0
   int 10h

?

0x9 and 9h are the same thing. it should not make any diffrens..

[Candy]

0x9 and 9h are the same thing. it should not make any diffrens..

it SHOULD not. That's exactly why I asked.

[Therx]

I had exactly the same problem with Bootf02 and NASM the other day. I think the code I had to change was a mov bx, 0 and I replaced it with xor bx, bx and it worked ???

Hope this helps

Pete

[Candy]

*makes a very nice guess*

You might be *just* over the max amount of bytes in the boot sector, causing the times-thing to want to make -1 or even less zeroes padding, thus crashing nasm.