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SubjectRe: 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.39-rc4 hangs after "Booting the kernel" on quad Pentium Pro system
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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