Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jan 1999 20:47:34 -0600 (CST) | From | "Andre M. Hedrick" <> | Subject | Re: GPF + Oops in 2.2.0-pre4 |
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On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Thomas Molina wrote:
> The really frustrating part of all this is that the BIOS makers and > motherboard manufacturers seem to be non-responsive on this issue. My > attempts to email the responsible organizations have elicited either no > response, or unhelpful responses. The prevailing attitude seems to be, > "It works for Windows, so we don't care."
Name the 'motherboard manufacturers' so we all can avoid hardware that is no-nwork-aroundable.
> On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Your BIOS is what is wrong. Apparently the BIOS protected mode interface > > is really a "Windows interface" and doesn't follow the rules: when Linux > > calls into it with a different segment setup than Windows does, the BIOS > > gets confused and does something illegal.
Cheers, Andre Hedrick The (NEW) Linux IDE guy The APC UPS Specialist for Linux
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/ http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/apcupsd/apcupsd-3.5.2.bin.tar.gz
You just need a bigger hammer, or learn how to swing the one you have better. (C) me.....
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