Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Alexander van Heukelum wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The x86 bzImage contains a stub to inform people that it is not possible
> any more to run a Linux kernel by catting it to a floppy and then
> booting from it. This was meant to be all 16-bit code. The first
> instruction, however, ended up as being coded as a 16:32-bit far jump. I
> assume the intention was a 16:16-bit far jump.
> 
> This patch changes only i386.
> 
> Greetings,
>       Alexander
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S b/arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S
> index 011b7a4..ae9df0d 100644
> --- a/arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S
> +++ b/arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ #endif
>  _start:
>  
>       # Normalize the start address
> -     jmpl    $BOOTSEG, $start2
> +     jmpw    $BOOTSEG, $start2
>  
>  start2:
>       movw    %cs, %ax
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