Messages in this thread | | | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> | Subject | Re: resetting | Date | Fri, 20 Sep 1996 17:24:38 -0400 (EDT) |
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> Probably it has nothing to do with the problem, but you never know... > > I stumbled across some information concerning rebooting with the A20 gate > disabled (it may ditch the machine). Does the kernel do anything with the A20 > line before rebooting? (Sorry, don't have the source code here)
Makes sense - the x86 boots to the last memory paragraph, which is > 1Mb on 386 and up.
> See: > > http://www.x86.org/Productivity/A20Reset.html
Always an interesting place :-)
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