Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 03:48:28 -0700 (PDT) From: David Filo <filo@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: biosboot/start.S needs fix for Intel AL440LX motherboard Message-ID: <199710161048.DAA27096@ns2.yahoo.com>
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The latest BIOS from Intel for their AL440LX board does not pass the drive number in %dl as biosboot/start.S assumes (instead %dl is set to 0). The end result is that you cannot boot from a harddrive if you're not using slices (a "Read error" occurs after the BIOS hands over control). Booting from floppy works fine and using slices with bteasy works as well. Forcing %dl to $0x80 (which is what bteasy appears to do) solves the problem for me. I assume the real solution is a bit more complex than this. I suppose this could be due to some weird BIOS setting, but I think I pretty much tried everything. This board will be popular, so would be nice to get this fixed.
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