Re: 2.0.33 bzImage booting errors

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Mon, 23 Mar 1998 14:49:56 +0100


Hi,

> Depends on the machine. On some of those broken machines its enough to
> disable L2 cache to make bzImages boot, on some you need to disable both.
> Playing with write-through/write-back in the BIOS-setup also helps
> _sometimes_.

I think we should do a "wbinvd" just before toggling the A20 gate
if we run on a 486+.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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