Re: [PATCH 12/12] i386 boot: Add an ELF header to bzImage

Andrew Morton wrote:

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:13:12 -0600
[email protected] (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
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