[syslinux] [PATCH 4/4] Support sectors >512

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Aug 14 09:45:18 PDT 2012


On 08/10/2012 02:33 AM, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
>
> If EBIOS is detected for this drive it tries to read sector size and
> use it. If error or no EBIOS 512 is assumed.
> Buffer to read sector size if always allocated into the stack.
> CHS informations are not readed as not needed and same space not
> restoring %dl for drive number.
>

I'm sorry, I can't make out this description...

%dl needs to be set up correctly when launching the next stage.

	-hpa

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