On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Peter Stuge wrote: > I was thinking that the bootloader (BIOS/whatever at the reset vector) > would make sure to set up a sane state because that's the way it's been when > I've played with this.
I don't think it's a good idea to assume any sensible behaviour on the part of any bios. The x86 reset action is CS=f000, EIP=fff0, and Linux should do exactly this, not something else that "might be the same". That's the problem. LinuxBIOS will work fine with the incorrect Linux CS:IP pair, but you can't rely on anything else. ron
