Re: anyone have a 16-bit x86 early_printk?

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Tue, 14 Jan 2003 05:43:01 -0800

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I'm trying to get a box to boot and it appears to drop dead before
>> start_kernel(). Would anyone happen to have an early_printk() analogue
>> for 16-bit x86 code?

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:13:15AM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
> It could be failing in the decompression routine if it was compiled for
> the wrong cpu (ie. using cmov instructions).

The cpu has cmov. It's Pentium-III. It suceeds in one configuration of
the machine and fails in another.

Bill
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