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| author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2008-10-14 14:38:04 -0700 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2008-10-14 14:39:46 -0700 |
| commit | 02b692d367343df7eed8c1b1a0f435424e8b3a56 (patch) | |
| tree | e1b70e580a882950b50ac606e29f5445981c1fbe /doc | |
| parent | 50b496340e63a7d81c6033b739381af2858d8ac2 (diff) | |
| download | syslinux-02b692d367343df7eed8c1b1a0f435424e8b3a56.tar.gz | |
MEMDISK: default to "safeint" modesyslinux-3.73-pre3
There is enough evidence that "safeint" is a decent compromise between
The Right Thing[TM] and dealing with the reality of ultra-broken
DOSen. Make it the default.
Clean up some of the command-line parsing code and status printing.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/memdisk.txt b/doc/memdisk.txt index 531706e1..6c994f92 100644 --- a/doc/memdisk.txt +++ b/doc/memdisk.txt @@ -105,8 +105,12 @@ d) MEMDISK normally uses the BIOS "INT 15h mover" API to access high bigraw Use raw access to protected mode memory, and leave the CPU in "big real" mode afterwards. + int Use plain INT 15h access to protected memory. This assumes + that anything which hooks INT 15h knows what it is doing. + safeint Use INT 15h access to protected memory, but invoke INT 15h the way it was *before* MEMDISK was loaded. + This is the default since version 3.73. e) MEMDISK by default supports EDD/EBIOS on hard disks, but not on floppy disks. This can be controlled with the options: |