diff --git a/arch/i386/cpu/start16.S b/arch/i386/cpu/start16.S
index 1ebb6bc..5e33aa1 100644
--- a/arch/i386/cpu/start16.S
+++ b/arch/i386/cpu/start16.S
@@ -45,10 +45,8 @@
 	wbinvd
 
 	/* load the descriptor tables */
-o32 cs	lidt	idt_ptr
 o32 cs	lgdt	gdt_ptr
 
-
 	/* Now, we enter protected mode */
 	movl	%cr0, %eax
 	orl	$1,%eax
@@ -57,6 +55,8 @@
 	/* Flush the prefetch queue */
 	jmp	ff
 ff:
+	/* Tell 32-bit code it is being entered from hard-reset */
+	movw	$0x0001, %bx
 
 	/* Finally jump to the 32bit initialization code */
 	movw	$code32start, %ax
@@ -68,10 +68,6 @@
 	.long	_start		/* offset */
 	.word	0x10		/* segment */
 
-idt_ptr:
-	.word	0		/* limit */
-	.long	0		/* base */
-
 gdt_ptr:
 	.word	0x30		/* limit (48 bytes = 6 GDT entries) */
 	.long	BOOT_SEG + gdt	/* base */