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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Seabios incompatible with Linux 2.6.26 host?
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:08:58 -0500
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On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 03:34:24PM +0100, Pierre Riteau wrote:
> I think I traced back the issue to the switch from Bochs BIOS to Seabios. By forcing the usage of Bochs BIOS 5f08bb45861f54be478b25075b90d2406a0f8bb3 works, while it dies without the -bios override.
> Unfortunately, newer versions don't seem to work with Bochs BIOS.
> 
> Upgrading the host kernel to 2.6.32 (Debian Squeeze) solves the issue. No problem on Fedora 12 as well.

Even Linux 2.6.31 stopped working as a host for me since that commit.