>>>>> Goran Koruga writes:

 GK> So I wrote dumb "stage1" which just told me whether the value in
 GK> DX is >= 80 or not. And it wasn't.

Do you mean that you put this dumb stage1 on the hard disk, and booted
it from the BIOS?  What value did %dl actually have?

 GK> PS. Maybe it's worth putting this into docs so that another user
 GK> with problematic BIOS won't run into the same problem.

Definitely... I just want to know more details, since I don't know the
actual tests you ran, and it's pretty important that we understand the
facts correctly so that we don't mislead anybody.

Thanks,

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