[syslinux] boot Soekris 4801 with EXTLINUX
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed May 25 13:11:41 PDT 2005
Evan Webb wrote:
> I suspect that the net4801 has the same problem as the net45xx that I
> reported on Monday. I tested some more of the code, and it appears that,
> strangely, the jump to the code in the 2nd sector (jz all_read) of
> ldlinux.sys fails.
>
> Peter, any ideas?
That would mean that the second sector didn't get read correctly, which
implies a fundamental bug in the BIOS. One thing I would suggest is to
hard-wire the CBIOS/EBIOS selection, and see if one works and not the other.
-hpa
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