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.
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