Re: Loading Linux from Linux - opinions

From: Ronald G. Minnich (rminnich@lanl.gov)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 15:10:07 EST


On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch wrote:

> Also, I haven't looked in detail at what you're doing in 16 bit mode,
> but it seems cleaner to me not to ever leave 32 bit mode. All setup.S
> can do in 16 bit mode is to mess things up, e.g. by trying to call the
> BIOS.

yep. going to 16-bit mode was my first version of LOBOS, and I later
realized it was a mistake. Now if only I could convince you all to leave
paging on :-)

ron

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