Re: [Etherboot-developers] stumbling block for 5.2

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>The problem I'm facing now is that the Quit function of Etherboot
>(formerly called Local) doesn't return control to the caller, which is
>DOS in the case of .com images, and the BIOS in the case of .zrom
>images. It jumps off into hyperspace and often reboots the machine.
>.zdsk images don't really have an environment to return to so Quit is
>arguably undefined. This needs to be fixed before release, otherwise
>Etherboot doesn't follow the BIOS boot order, which means one cannot
>quit Etherboot to let the BIOS boot from floppy or disk.

Ok, I've found what was killing the Quit from Etherboot. It was the
zeroing of the BSS in main. Now I have to work out what it was zeroing
and why it was zeroing too much.