H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> The most likely explanation for this is that the VESA BIOS expects to be 
> entered in Big Real Mode (*.limit = 0xffffffff) instead of ordinary Real 
> Mode.  Here is a completely untested patch which changes the segment 
> descriptors to Big Real Mode instead.  It would be worth testing out.
> 

... and here is one that actually has a prayer of actually working.

	-hpa