[ipxe-devel] iPXE with Virtualbox

Matthew Walster matthew at walster.org
Mon Jan 24 14:18:26 UTC 2011


On 24 January 2011 12:45, Michael Brown <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk> wrote:
> Thanks for tracking this down, Matthew.  It's annoying that flat real mode
> seems to cause problems in some hypervisors, even though it works on real
> hardware.

No problem at all - I had an hour spare and it was a good time to try
"git bisect" out ;)

> I can't just revert this change, since some later commits (e.g. "[romprefix]
> Add .mrom format") depend upon it.  I'll rework it to use some form of
> protected mode instead.

I'm sorry to hear that. Please do let me know if there's any way I can
be of assistance, even if it's just testing on a range of platforms.

Matthew Walster



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