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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:13:12 -0600
> ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (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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