On 17-Feb-00 Mike Smith wrote:
>>
>> On 16-Feb-00 Mike Smith wrote:
>> >> This is a problem with the thinkpad BIOS that I have not had the time to be
>> >> able to track down. It would *appear* to be that the BIOS does not do
>> >> int 13 handling on boot cdroms, and the boot/loader makes much use of that
>> >> for loading the kernel and drivers.
>> >
>> > The problem with the Thinkpad BIOS is where it puts the emulated floppy
>> > image's disk number - it's not in the 'normal' place, and I don't exactly
>> > know how to deal with it cleanly. If someone were to lend me a thinkpad
>> > or look at this it would be easy to fix.
>>
>> Err, which place? The emulated device is always BIOS drive 0x00, aka the
>> first floppy drive when you are emulating a floppy.
>
> It's not, which is the "Thinkpad CDROM boot problem". The one report I
> recall put it on 0x87, but I don't have any concrete evidence to suggest
> that it's always there either.
Gah. Then they need to learn how to read standards. It is passed in via %dl
at least?
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