From: Dan Mick <dmick@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: failing while writing to disk with BIOS in realmode setup
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 18:23:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5595E42F.2050301@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5594B68A.3000205@redhat.com>
On 07/01/2015 08:56 PM, Dan Mick wrote:
> What might I be doing wrong? Why won't this code succeed to write to
> the (otherwise empty) drive 1 from kernel setup's main?
Indeed it was something very dumb, as hpa was kind enough to point out:
grub2 with 'linux' never runs the 16-bit realmode setup code. at all.
Changing to linux16/initrd16 is making much more sense. Many thanks to hpa.
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2015-07-02 3:56 Dan Mick
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