Re: Unable to boot a raw kernel image :??

H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-05T14:50:44Z

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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