[syslinux] boot Soekris 4801 with EXTLINUX

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu May 26 11:25:22 PDT 2005


Johan Linner wrote:
> Found this in the Soekris list, maybe it can give any clues:
> 
> According to the net4801 errata 0003:
> 
> The SC1100 built in busmaster IDE controller is pretty standard, but
> have two bugs: data transfers need to be dword aligned and it cannot do
> an exact 64Kbyte data transfer.

The whole thing sounds much more like *several* BIOS bugs than anything. 
   One of the bugs seems to be that EDD exists, but doesn't work right...

	-hpa




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