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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: Will this work (two IDE drives, DOS and *BSD)?
Message-ID: <1993Aug26.151022.23078@gmd.de>
Sender: veit@mururoa (Holger Veit)
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Organization: GMD - German National Research Center for Computer Science
References: <CC73xF.8n0@rex.uokhsc.edu> <1993Aug23.164125.1497@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <DERAADT.93Aug25145630@newt.fsa.ca>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 15:10:22 GMT
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In article <DERAADT.93Aug25145630@newt.fsa.ca>, deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:
|> In article <1993Aug25.145829.28088@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes:
|> In article <DERAADT.93Aug24170735@newt.fsa.ca>, deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:
[...on "FAST-A20" switch causing loop in boot loader to run too fast...]
|> Perhaps you should disable FAST-A20 (in the BIOS setup) or disable fast
[...]
|> My machine's BIOS does not allow me to disable FAST-A20.
There are setup programs available to disable this feature for many common
chip sets, for use in case a crippled BIOS setup is so "user friendly" to
prevent users from changing complicated things that must be explained in the booklet
of the motherboard.
|>
|> This bug should be fixed in the bootroms. Perhaps you didn't read far enough
|> to see that there is a fix available from someone.
I read far enough, I just excluded it from the followup. As you already pointed
out, the fix contributes some more code to the boot loader, which is bad since it
is already close to the upper limit. Further code will be necessary for adaption
to allow booting Mach from *BSD (parameter passing, etc.). Nearly every
additional byte in the loader is too much.
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