Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 02 Jul 2015 18:23:59 -0700 | From | Dan Mick <> | Subject | Re: failing while writing to disk with BIOS in realmode setup |
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On 07/01/2015 08:56 PM, Dan Mick wrote: > What might I be doing wrong? Why won't this code succeed to write to > the (otherwise empty) drive 1 from kernel setup's main?
Indeed it was something very dumb, as hpa was kind enough to point out: grub2 with 'linux' never runs the 16-bit realmode setup code. at all.
Changing to linux16/initrd16 is making much more sense. Many thanks to hpa.
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