Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932129AbWJEP1J (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:27:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932104AbWJEP1J (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:27:09 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:49083 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932132AbWJEP1F (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:27:05 -0400 Message-ID: <45252402.6010300@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:25:54 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: "Eric W. Biederman" , vgoyal@in.ibm.com, linux kernel mailing list , Reloc Kernel List , ak@suse.de, horms@verge.net.au, lace@jankratochvil.net, magnus.damm@gmail.com, lwang@redhat.com, dzickus@redhat.com, maneesh@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/12] i386 boot: Add an ELF header to bzImage References: <20061003170032.GA30036@in.ibm.com> <20061003172511.GL3164@in.ibm.com> <20061003201340.afa7bfce.akpm@osdl.org> <20061004214403.e7d9f23b.akpm@osdl.org> <20061004233137.97451b73.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061004233137.97451b73.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 624 Lines: 18 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:13:12 -0600 > ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > >> Do things work better if you don't specify a vga=xxx mode? > > yes, without vga=0x263 it boots. vga= actually patches a specific offset in the boot sector. We don't actually have 512 bytes, we have some 500-ish bytes plus a small patch area at the end. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/