i386/62003: make /boot/loader "reboot" code same as reboot() syscall

Bruce M Simpson bms at spc.org
Wed Jun 23 07:20:09 GMT 2004


The following reply was made to PR i386/62003; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce M Simpson <bms at spc.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/62003: make /boot/loader "reboot" code same as reboot() syscall
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:19:44 +0100

 The patch here looks correct; the segment for calling the BIOS reset
 vector should always be 0xF000. Sounds like loader is cutting corners.
 
 This problem has been observed before with various third-party BIOS
 and x86 emulators.


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