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Re: stage1.S patch for BIOS bug workaround
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From: |
Yoshinori K. Okuji |
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Re: stage1.S patch for BIOS bug workaround |
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Date: |
Wed, 19 Dec 2001 20:39:34 +0900 |
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At Sat, 15 Dec 2001 20:13:47 -0600,
Michael Sullivan wrote:
> Here's a modification to stage1.S needed to work around an apparent
> bug in AST BIOS release 1.04 on an AST Adventure! 415: the value of
> register DL is 0 upon return from INT 13 function 41, leading to a
> "GRUB Geom Error" because that causes subsequent disk operations to
> be applied to the floppy rather than the hard disk.
Thanks for your contribution. I've applied your patch to the CVS,
because I hope that GRUB works with as many computers as possible.
Regards,
Okuji