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SubjectRe: [PATCH 12/12] i386 boot: Add an ELF header to bzImage
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 12:48:10AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Ok. It will take some digging but I suspect the problem is
> that video.S is using a table or a variable placed over the original
> boot sector, and expecting it to be zero initialized.
>
> Finding that in the pile of 2000 lines of assembly could take a
> little while.
>
> Now at least we have something other people can try and reproduce
> this problem with.
>

I have tried it on three machines with various combinations of vga=
but no luck. Can't reproduce the problem at all. :-(

Vivek
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