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Re: [PATCH] Workaround for usb boot failure on some mainboards
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Lennart Sorensen |
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Re: [PATCH] Workaround for usb boot failure on some mainboards |
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Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:45:32 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:52:46PM +0200, Thomas Frauendorfer wrote:
> Well, I think I didn't state the problem clearly enough:
> The bios doesn't write to the disk, it just changes the value on the
> fly when the bootloader is reading the bpb through a bios method.
> The workaroud also doesn't change the disk, it only reads the
> necessary information from a region the bios doesn't mess up on the
> fly...
Still a bug. It can NOT assume things about what is being booted.
Don't assume FAT16 unless you checked explicitly that it is FAT16.
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Len Sorensen