Hello,
when testing my --force-bpb patch to boot from zip (see next mail), I
noticed that --force-lba does not work in stage2. If --force-lba is
set, stage2 will never use lba.
The fix is simple, see attached patch. Should I check it in?
Jochen
diff -ur grub/stage2/asm.S grub-zipboot/stage2/asm.S
--- grub/stage2/asm.S Thu Jul 6 17:30:25 2000
+++ grub-zipboot/stage2/asm.S Tue Jul 25 20:27:17 2000
@@ -1082,15 +1082,15 @@
cmpw $0xaa55, %bx
jne 1f
+ movb %ah, %bl /* save the major version into %bl */
+
/* check if AH=0x42 is supported if FORCE_LBA is zero */
movb EXT_C(force_lba), %al
testb %al, %al
- jnz 1f
+ jnz 2f
andw $1, %cx
- jz 1f
-
- movb %ah, %bl /* save the major version into %bl */
- jmp 2f
+ jnz 2f
+
1:
xorb %bl, %bl
2:
