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

H. Peter Anvin
2006-10-05T15:27:09Z

Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.

vga= actually patches a specific offset in the boot sector. We don't
actually have 512 bytes, we have some 500-ish bytes plus a small patch
area at the end.

-hpa