Your message dated Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:44:08 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#651562: grub-efi-amd64-bin: missing linux16.mod (makes
memtest86+ unusable)
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Source: grub-efi-amd64-bin
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Dear Maintainer,
grub-efi-amd64-bin is missing the file linux16.mod. This makes
memtest86+ unusable on amd64 EFI installations. Please consider
including linux16 in the EFI application.
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On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:14:42AM +0100, Felix Zweig wrote:
> grub-efi-amd64-bin is missing the file linux16.mod. This makes
> memtest86+ unusable on amd64 EFI installations. Please consider
> including linux16 in the EFI application.
Sorry, this isn't possible. The 16-bit Linux boot protocol assumes that
BIOS interfaces are available, which isn't the case with EFI; and in any
case I don't believe that an EFI-based boot loader can guarantee to be
able to set up the particular memory ranges required by the 16-bit boot
protocol.
If memtest86+ can work without BIOS calls, then somebody needs to modify
it to be usable via the 32-bit boot protocol.
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Colin Watson [[email protected]]
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