Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:26:03 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.39-rc4 hangs after "Booting the kernel" on quad Pentium Pro system |
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On 04/22/2011 06:46 PM, Yuhong Bao wrote: > > If it was really BIOS-e801 and not BIOS-88 returning this, looks like this is probably a kernel bug in the parsing of the results. >>> This would be easy to diagnose with DOS DEBUG with no himem.sys >>> loaded. >> >> Would be happy to try with some instructions if it would help. > Enter these instructions using the A command and execute with the T command: > mov AX, E801 > INT 15 > INT 3 > And provide the results of the AX, BX, CX, and DX registers after the INT 15h. >
Executing these from DOS DEBUG won't give you real results, because DOS intercepts this call.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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