Re: [Xen-devel] Bug: Windows 2003 fails to install on xen-unstable tip

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 12:49 +0100, Tim Deegan wrote:
> At 12:44 +0100 on 29 Apr (1367239442), Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 12:35 +0100, Tim Deegan wrote:
> > > But if you enable the RTC (which is the default, and e.g. that's how
> > > SeaBIOS leaves it) but aren't using it, it's very bad.  
> > 
> > Is this something which needs investigating on the SeaBIOS side, or is
> > it one of those things where the BIOS can't ever know when to disable
> > the RTC?
> 
> I'd have to look it up, but I suspect that in a 'normal' BIOS environemnt
> (e.g. DOS) the RTC PT is expected to be set up and running, and I'm sure
> if we changed that we'd break a handful of PXE install frameworks. :|

Right. Rereading what you wrote I see you weren't even implying this was
a SeaBIOS issue, like I originally thought.

Ian.


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