freebios2 mod to reset code.

Steve Gehlbach steve at nexpath.com
Wed Jul 23 13:40:05 CEST 2003


Stefan Reinauer wrote:


>>>One caveat I discovered, I could never get Linux to boot with a gdt 
>>>located higher than 1M.  So even if you put a linux compatible gdt high, 
>>>it has to be moved to ram < 1M or linux hangs on boot.  Never figured 
>>>out why (true for 2.4 anyway).

> Could this cause the hang with ADLO/rombios when booting grub on K8? 
> Grub seems to hang right when it switches to pmode the first time.

For me, it happened every time, so I don't know what "first time" means. 
  I guess I could have been doing something really stupid (I regret to 
admit this is possible), but I do recall making a number of before and 
after tests with a number of different memory addresses.

-Steve




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