Re: Hook INT18 for IBM servers?
Itay Gazit <[email protected]>
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Hi Jarrod, Did you use latest git tree? On Aug 8 commit 7a3a159af54d48158cb260f05043d8b503de7992 may relate to the problem. BTW: For using interrupt 18 instead of 19, you needed to replace, in romprefix.S, 0x19 with 0x18 in the lines: "pushl %es:( 0x19 * 4 )" and "popl %es:( 0x19 * 4 )", correct? Thanks, Itay On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Jarrod Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: > I see that back in December Glenn Brown pointed out that for IBM > servers in Etherboot, he changed the hook to INT18 to iret to make it > behave normally under IBM BIOS (which does not support BBS). > > I don't see gPXE having any config mechanism to build to hook INT18 > instead of INT19. I changed it to hook INT18, but I couldn't figure > out the right way to iret (all my attempts just hung). If it calls > INT18 or INT19 to exit, it ends poorly (looping/hanging). At least > when I hooked INT18, it was able to be moved around by the BIOS setup > menu instead of forcing itself to boot first every time, though > getting to a boot device past that I couldn't figure out due to the > whole iret aspect. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Etherboot-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/etherboot-discuss > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Etherboot-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/etherboot-discuss