Re: [Etherboot-developers] Windows 98 slow booting

[Michael B. <mb...@fe...>]

On 16 Oct 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > For 5.1, it's trickier, as Eric says as if Etherboot is running above 1
> > MB and you can't turn it off there and then.
> It isn't a lot trickier, as there is always code that runs below 1MB
> to jump to the entry point.   So we just need to include the
> code in stub that jumps to the 16bit entry point.  That is a little
> trickier because that one piece can no longer be in C. :(

It's not just the 16-bit entry point that needs it - it's also needed
whenever Etherboot returns to the BIOS, or boots from disk.

Michael Brown
http://www.fensystems.co.uk