Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:25:54 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 12/12] i386 boot: Add an ELF header to bzImage |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:13:12 -0600 > ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > >> Do things work better if you don't specify a vga=xxx mode? > > yes, without vga=0x263 it boots.
vga= actually patches a specific offset in the boot sector. We don't actually have 512 bytes, we have some 500-ish bytes plus a small patch area at the end.
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