Stefan Reinauer wrote:
One caveat I discovered, I could never get Linux to boot with a gdt located higher than 1M. So even if you put a linux compatible gdt high, it has to be moved to ram < 1M or linux hangs on boot. Never figured out why (true for 2.4 anyway).
Could this cause the hang with ADLO/rombios when booting grub on K8? Grub seems to hang right when it switches to pmode the first time.
For me, it happened every time, so I don't know what "first time" means. I guess I could have been doing something really stupid (I regret to admit this is possible), but I do recall making a number of before and after tests with a number of different memory addresses.
-Steve