Re: Is there a patch for 2.1.106?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
14 Jun 1998 11:42:48 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980614120336.275A-100000@shawc.demon.co.uk>
By author: Shaw Carruthers <shaw@shawc.demon.co.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Yaroslav Rosomakho wrote:
>
> > Hello! Can someone give a patch that solves CRC error?
> > Yaroslav Rosomakho.
> >
> >
>
> --- linux/arch/i386/boot/setup.S~ Sun Jun 14 10:12:09 1998
> +++ linux/arch/i386/boot/setup.S Sun Jun 14 11:41:54 1998
> @@ -542,9 +542,9 @@
> mov es,ax
> a20_wait:
> inc ax
> - mov [0x7c00],ax ! any unused memory location < 64K
> + mov [0x00],ax ! any unused memory location < 64K
> seg es
> - cmp ax,[0x7c10] ! corresponding HMA address
> + cmp ax,[0x10] ! corresponding HMA address
> je a20_wait ! loop until no longer aliased
> pop es
> pop ds
>

What kind of CRC error does this slove? In particular, which boot
loader?

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