> Hi!
>
> Someone has code to dump kernel crashes to floppy. Sorry, I wforgot
> where to download that code.
>
> I want to use it: my ax59pro mainboard will oops on APM poweroff, and
> ACPI poweroff is NOP. In dos, apm does poweroff. So I tried to hook
> poweroff code into process just before jmp ffff:0000 but it did not
> work: seems we do not create sane-enough environment for APM to work.
My gigabyte SMP mainboard has the same problem since somewhere in the middle
of 2.3. It gets a fault when it tries to jump to the call gate to the APM
segment. I haven't investigated further yet, but I believe it is because
some APM LDT entries are incorrectly set up.
With 2.2 it works fine.
-Andi
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