Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:54:21 -0400 | From | Vivek Goyal <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 12/12] i386 boot: Add an ELF header to bzImage |
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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. :-(
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