Subject: Re: boot loader timeout under qemu
To: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/07/2005 14:01:24
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 02:21:02PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> 
> BTW, the timeout in the mbr_bootsel code (sys/arch/i386/stand/mbr/mbr.S)
> does not suffer from this problem.  mbr_bootsel uses the "INT 1A" BIOS
> call to count ticks (at approx 18.2 ticks per second), and that works
> well enough.

But not on some of the Soekris systems where that call seems to be
unimplemented.

	David

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