Re: failing while writing to disk with BIOS in realmode setup

[Dan Mick]

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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