Re: [PATCH 12/12] i386 boot: Add an ELF header to bzImage

Eric W. Biederman
2006-10-05T06:49:53Z

Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:

> On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:13:12 -0600
> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
>> Do things work better if you don't specify a vga=xxx mode?
>
> yes, without vga=0x263 it boots.

Ok. It will take some digging but I suspect the problem is
that video.S is using a table or a variable placed over the original
boot sector, and expecting it to be zero initialized.

Finding that in the pile of 2000 lines of assembly could take a
little while.

Now at least we have something other people can try and reproduce
this problem with.

Eric