Re: resetting

Andrew E. Mileski (aem@ott.hookup.net)
Fri, 20 Sep 1996 17:24:38 -0400 (EDT)


> 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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