On Thursday 31 May 2007 09:39, Adriaan wrote: > "Because other OS's run the BIOS in real mode, and we run it in vm86 > mode and we don't emulate enough instructions in vm86 mode for the > Compaq/HP BIOS." > > In another post > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-September/0287 >73.html he refers to a patch at > http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch
Ah interesting, there was another patch earlier in this thread which is what I was testing. The patch does work, I hadn't installed the resulting code properly. I am not sure both patches address the same problem though. I added John to the CC list, hope he doesn't mind! It would be nice if these patches were committed before 7.0 too :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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