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hello fellow devers,
i have a serious problem...
...my kernel floppy image will NOT run on ANY gateway pc, but runs *PERFECTLY* on my home brew PCs. WHY??? has anyone else had this problem thus far?? I'd be greatful for help on this subject as i am solidly perplexed. It *might* be because i use cmos to detect floppy drives,that's all i can think of.

regards,
Mr. Xsism

I have had some problems with not being able to boot my os from a floppy disc (on IBM machines, never had/seen/tested a Gateway).

I found out that some machines always fails on every first read from the floppy drive, because it has to start the floppy drive engine and that can causes a time-out/error on some machine. The second read usually succeed.

So check you code and make sure it tries to read a sector at least 3 times before it is allowed to fail.

Hope this helps you.

It is the BIOS....

I'm currently working on some BIOS calles that work on all/most BIOSes...