[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) writes: > > The last test I need to do is to verify that this technique works with > under loadlin, from win9X, and I have a strong place to start arguing > for the changes needed to natively support ELF booting, in the linux > kernel.
O.k. that failed. And now I know why linux has it's 16 bit code seperated out nicely in an early boot section. It is for the very pragmatic reason that coming from a bootloader that runs under dos loading linux destroy's dos and all TSR's. And thus you have pointers in your interrupt table that point to dummy code. So not calling the BIOS has some very practical benefits. Back to the drawing board... Eric
