>
> On 17-Feb-00 Mike Smith wrote:
> >>
> >> On 16-Feb-00 Mike Smith wrote:
> >> >> This is a problem with the thinkpad BIOS that I have not had the time to be
> >> >> able to track down. It would *appear* to be that the BIOS does not do
> >> >> int 13 handling on boot cdroms, and the boot/loader makes much use of that
> >> >> for loading the kernel and drivers.
> >> >
> >> > The problem with the Thinkpad BIOS is where it puts the emulated floppy
> >> > image's disk number - it's not in the 'normal' place, and I don't exactly
> >> > know how to deal with it cleanly. If someone were to lend me a thinkpad
> >> > or look at this it would be easy to fix.
> >>
> >> Err, which place? The emulated device is always BIOS drive 0x00, aka the
> >> first floppy drive when you are emulating a floppy.
> >
> > It's not, which is the "Thinkpad CDROM boot problem". The one report I
> > recall put it on 0x87, but I don't have any concrete evidence to suggest
> > that it's always there either.
>
> Gah. Then they need to learn how to read standards. It is passed in via %dl
> at least?
After David's response, I'm wondering whether the problem isn't that they
_arent_ passing the value in via %dl, and we're just getting trash. Not
sure how it is that boot1/2 are working though.
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