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Bug #9742

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libi386: Add workaround for HP BIOS issues

Added by Toomas Soome about 5 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Toomas Soome
Category:
bootloader
Start date:
2018-08-16
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Difficulty:
Medium
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Description

FreeBSD update https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=r331718

stand: Add workaround for HP BIOS issues

hrs@ and kuriyama@ have found that on some HP BIOS, a system will fail to
boot immediately after installation with the claim that it can't work out
which disk they are booting from.

They tracked it down to a buffer overrun, and found that it could be
alleviated by doing a dummy read before-hand.

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14341

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Updated by Electric Monk about 5 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Closed
  • % Done changed from 90 to 100

git commit f8e0ecf7cceff807dcd13fe031936e1ff28193e3

commit  f8e0ecf7cceff807dcd13fe031936e1ff28193e3
Author: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Date:   2018-08-28T14:22:41.000Z

    9742 libi386: Add workaround for HP BIOS issues
    Reviewed by: Yuri Pankov <yuripv@yuripv.net>
    Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@joyent.com>

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