Re: Clean BIOS booting Mandrake 9 via LILO

On Monday 25 November 2002 21:41, Michael Steil wrote:

> Andy, I LOVE YOU.

Thank you :-)  But as you can see I find commit-ment difficult :-)

> This is excellent news. By the way, the LinuxBIOS people announced
> today that their BIOS was even able to boot Windows 2000 now. Their
> BIOS includes parts of the Bochs BIOS, too.

Bunch of problems are delaying the CVS commit of it unfortunately.  I thought 
I would get through them today, but despite working all day on it its still 
not quite ready.  Should be done tomorrow.

One of the problems was an upsurge in a longstanding instability of crom, it 
wouldn't always boot successfully.  I wondered if it was something to do with 
Filtror, but it wasn't, as the problems persisted in a flash too.  Turns out 
there is a problem with the memory sizing C version of the Xcode action, it 
has been sending the wrong second value back to the PIC since the first CROM!  
I patched it to issue the correct value as a constant and now it is rock 
solid for booting.  

Now that's out of the way somewhere in all my threshing around I have broken 
bochs, I am some way towards finding where it is crashing but my brain has 
turned to cotton wool and its past time for bed.  So I hope to get it done 
during tomorrow.

-Andy



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