Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jun 1998 17:43:17 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | Re: crc error in 2.1.106 |
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On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote: > change the offset that breaks from 0x7c00 to 0x0, and the 0x7c10 > to 0x10. (it has a comment "any unused memory location < 64K" > and "corresponding HMA address" respectively.. It obviously isn't > unused for everybody - it's safe if you boot directly off a raw > floppy, but not with certain bootloaders). > > > The proper fix is probably to save and restore the value we use for > testing, but in the meantime I'd like to hear whether the above works..
FYI, on my Pentium (ASUS T2P4 mainboard), the CRC error occurs when booting a zImage from floppy (made using "make zdisk") but _not_ when booting a zImage from a hard drive using lilo. At first, I thought my floppy drive had gone bad... The proposed fix works fine for me.
/Mikael
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