Subject: Re: boot problems on VIA Eden i586 board
To: Kurt Albershardt <kurt@nv.net>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/06/2005 21:53:06
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 12:08:00PM -0800, Kurt Albershardt wrote:
> >>[1] http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=26007
>
> Thanks. How clean would a 1.6 -> 2.0 upgrade come out, or would I get
> munged again on the bootloader from the upgrade?
>
>
>
> >[2] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2005/02/28/0005.html
>
> I'm not in the UK, unfortunately.
>
>
>
> Some of the Linux distros hit this last year but most seem to have handled
> it by now.
>
> Discussion starting at
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120685#c35> and a
> resolution from Ingo Molnar
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120685#c113> might
> prove helpful?
They do indicate the Linux had bug in code handling machines without
PSE support. Perhaps same problem here?
Jaromir
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