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Re: Call For Help: Accessibility support in d-i



The problem is that syslinux incorrectly computes amount of data it should read to load a kernel. Attached patch fixes this. With this patch applied I can boot from access floppy. Also tested it with netboot (PXE) and d-i boot.img. I does not understand however why does syslinux works with other kernels without patch.

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Eugeniy Meshcheryakov

Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
Information and Computing Centre
http://icc.univ.kiev.ua
diff -urN syslinux-2.04/runkernel.inc syslinux-mod/runkernel.inc
--- syslinux-2.04/runkernel.inc	2003-04-11 08:44:56.000000000 +0300
+++ syslinux-mod/runkernel.inc	2004-06-23 10:05:37.000000000 +0300
@@ -258,8 +258,8 @@
 		inc si				; plus 1 boot sector
                 shl si,9			; Convert to bytes
                 mov ecx,8000h			; 32K
-		sub ecx,esi			; Number of bytes to copy
 		push ecx
+		sub ecx,esi			; Number of bytes to copy
 		add esi,(real_mode_seg << 4)	; Pointer to source
                 mov edi,100000h                 ; Copy to address 100000h
 

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