In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adrian Steinmann writes: >Soren > >We seem to have localized the loader reboot hang back to the first >far jump happening in btx.s: > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> observed: > > warm boot (writes 0x1234 to 0x472) and then jumps to the BIOS reboot > > handler: > > - ljmp $0xffff,$0x0 # reboot the machine > > > > however in various literature it is mentioned that $0xf000,$0xfff0 > > is bound to work better on most platforms, so I tried > > + ljmp $0xf000,$0xfff0 # reboot the machine > > > > which indeed works! (OpenBSD, for example, uses ljmp $0xf000,$0xfff0).
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