On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 03:51:55PM +0100, C. Masloch wrote:
>
> These fields must reflect the ROM-BIOS's geometry for CHS-based
> loaders to correctly load their next stage. Most loaders do not
> query the ROM-BIOS (Int13.08), relying on the BPB fields to hold
> the correct values already.
>
> Tested with lDebug booted in qemu via grub2's
> FreeDOS direct loading support, refer to
> https://bitbucket.org/ecm/ldosboot + https://bitbucket.org/ecm/ldebug
> (For this test, lDebug's iniload.asm must be assembled with
> -D_QUERY_GEOMETRY=0 to leave the BPB values provided by grub.)
>
> Signed-off-by: C. Masloch <pus...@38.de>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>

If there are no objections I will apply this in a week or so.

Daniel

PS Please CC me next time.

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