Re: [PACH] updated patch to restore bootsect

[Mikael Pettersson]

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 13:20:11 -0400 (EDT), Joshua <jhudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>diff -rup linux-2.6.7/arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S
>linux-2.6.7c/arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S
>--- linux-2.6.7/arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S	Tue Jun 15 22:19:23 2004
>+++ linux-2.6.7c/arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S	Fri Jul  2 04:22:08 2004
>@@ -5,12 +5,17 @@
>  *	modified by Bruce Evans (bde)
>  *	modified by Chris Noe (May 1999) (as86 -> gas)
>  *	gutted by H. Peter Anvin (Jan 2003)
>+ *	rewritten by Joshua Hudson (June 2004)

Why?

We got rid of this code for two reasons:
- it didn't work reliably
- normal boot loaders like (recent versions of) syslinux do work
-
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