Subject: Re: PNPBIOS broken after last major rototill?
To: Rafal Boni <rafal@mediaone.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/20/2000 09:52:08
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Rafal Boni wrote:

> As well as some desktops... I found this out when I rebuilt a kernel for
> my Gateway E5200 and it (again!) panic'ed in the PNPBIOS attach code.
> Turns out I had blown away the pnpbios.c that skipped index 14, which
> when queried under the current code always causes the box to reboot,
> though a PNPBIOS query tool for DOS I found works A-OK under NT on the
> same box (with the caveat that it uses real mode, so I'm not sure if
> NT is providing a shadow copy of the BIOS or simply redirects the BIOS
> calls to some internal layer or does some other magic).
>
	Just curiuos, what is at index 14 - does the DOS PNPBIOS query
	tool report anything?

                David/absolute
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