From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unable to boot a raw kernel image :??
Date: 5 Mar 2003 07:00:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b453er$qo7$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DF08DD0.BA70DA62@gmx.de
Followup to: <3DF08DD0.BA70DA62@gmx.de>
By author: Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I had this problem a while ago. It turned out to be a (widespread)
> BIOS bug triggered be the disk-size probe of the kernel's boot loader.
>
It's not a bug, really. The fact of the matter is that the disk
geometry probe in bootsect.S pretty much only works for legacy
floppies... no IDE floppies, no USB floppies, no virtual floppies.
That, and the 1 MB limitation, is the reason it either needs to get
nuked or get some massive surgery. I am currently trying to get Linus
to accept a patch to put it out of its misery.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-05 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-29 13:21 Unable to boot a raw kernel image :?? DervishD
2002-12-03 11:29 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-12-08 10:33 ` DervishD
2002-12-06 11:45 ` Edgar Toernig
2002-12-08 10:36 ` DervishD
2003-03-05 15:00 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-03-05 15:33 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-03-05 15:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-05 15:58 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-03-05 16:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-05 16:05 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-03-06 10:16 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-03-06 20:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-09 10:31 ` DervishD
2003-03-10 19:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-11 9:23 ` DervishD
2003-03-05 16:12 ` DervishD
2003-03-05 16:33 ` John Bradford
2003-03-05 16:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-05 16:55 ` John Bradford
2003-03-05 17:01 ` DervishD
2003-03-05 18:04 ` John Bradford
2003-03-05 16:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-05 17:04 ` DervishD
2003-03-05 17:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-06 1:08 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-06 0:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
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