On Wed, Nov 17 1999, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
> >>>>> 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?
dl has value 1. I wrote another dumb stage1 to test it. I forgot
asm source for it at home (unfortunatelly) - I will send it next
week.
>
> 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.
I have the info :
Computer : HP Vectra XU 6/200
BIOS info : Hewlett-Packard, version GG.06.11
There's also Phoenix mentioned in copyright notices.
I hope this helps...
Goran
>
> Thanks,
>
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