From: stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) Subject: Turning off BIOS shadowing helps Date: 21 Jun 1993 00:02:25 GMT
Some time ago I posted about problems I was having getting the X
to work after booting from a compressed kernel image on my
system. A recent posting mentioned that it's a good idea to
disable all BIOS shadowing, memory write protection, and the like
when running Linux.
Today I went through my system's BIOS configuration and found
that there was a 64K write-protected area at 0C000h and that
video BIOS ROM shadowing was enabled. Now that I've turned this
off, I have no problems with running X after booting from the
compressed kernel image.