Re: anyone have a 16-bit x86 early_printk?

Brian Gerst (bgerst@didntduck.org)
Tue, 14 Jan 2003 08:13:15 -0500


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?

It could be failing in the decompression routine if it was compiled for
the wrong cpu (ie. using cmov instructions).

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				Brian Gerst

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