[syslinux] Problems booting with memdisk, with fix

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Aug 12 12:23:10 PDT 2004


Neil Newell wrote:
> 
> The solution we've adopted is to pass the Disk Reset call on to the BIOS
> via a call rather than a jump. This means we get control back afterwards,
> and can zero out the error status before returning to the caller. It seems
> unlikely that an error return from a Disk Reset is of much use anyway, so
> this patch shouldn't have much of a downside, if any.
> 
> Patch is against syslinux-2.10
> 

Yeah, you're probably right.  It does concern me somewhat, because there could 
be a legitimate error; but this one is clearly just a plain bug, so it's 
probably easier to just squash it.

	-hpa




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