freebios2 mod to reset code.

Stefan Reinauer stepan at suse.de
Wed Jul 23 12:08:01 CEST 2003


* ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> [030723 18:08]:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Steve Gehlbach 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).
> 
> we're not seeing this. We have GDTs in very high memory and it all works. 
> Interesting.
 
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.


Stefan




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