> The really frustrating part of all this is that the BIOS makers and
> motherboard manufacturers seem to be non-responsive on this issue. My
> attempts to email the responsible organizations have elicited either no
> response, or unhelpful responses. The prevailing attitude seems to be,
> "It works for Windows, so we don't care."
Name the 'motherboard manufacturers' so we all can avoid hardware that is
no-nwork-aroundable.
> On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > Your BIOS is what is wrong. Apparently the BIOS protected mode interface
> > is really a "Windows interface" and doesn't follow the rules: when Linux
> > calls into it with a different segment setup than Windows does, the BIOS
> > gets confused and does something illegal.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
The (NEW) Linux IDE guy
The APC UPS Specialist for Linux
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/apcupsd/apcupsd-3.5.2.bin.tar.gz
You just need a bigger hammer, or learn how to swing the one you have better.
(C) me.....
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