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Re: GRUB on system with NO gateA20
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Yoshinori K. Okuji |
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Re: GRUB on system with NO gateA20 |
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Date: |
Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:24:50 +0900 |
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Wanderlust/2.8.1 (Something) SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.3 (Unebigoryōmae) APEL/10.3 Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) |
At 22 Jul 2002 13:40:58 -0700,
Liberty Young wrote:
> It looks like that on x86 machines, grub uses Gate A20, instead of using
> the PS/2 method via I/O port 92 for switching protected mode.
s/Gate A20/the keyboard controller/
Technically speaking, every modern x86 machine should have Gate A20.
> I believe this to be a bug.
You are right. See this web page, for more infomation:
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=509&group_id=68
Thanks,
Okuji