[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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