diff --git a/arch/i386/cpu/start.S b/arch/i386/cpu/start.S
index 1980f1a7b7..3cea04b4ce 100644
--- a/arch/i386/cpu/start.S
+++ b/arch/i386/cpu/start.S
@@ -33,7 +33,27 @@
 .type _start, @function
 .globl _i386boot_start
 _i386boot_start:
+	/*
+	 * This is the fail safe 32-bit bootstrap entry point. The
+	 * following code is not executed from a cold-reset (actually, a
+	 * lot of it is, but from real-mode after cold reset. It is
+	 * repeated here to put the board into a state as close to cold
+	 * reset as necessary)
+	 */
+	cli
+	cld
+
+	/* Turn of cache (this might require a 486-class CPU) */
+	movl	%cr0, %eax
+	orl	$0x60000000,%eax
+	movl	%eax, %cr0
+	wbinvd
+
+	/* Tell 32-bit code it is being entered from an in-RAM copy */
+	movw	$0x0000, %bx
 _start:
+	/* This is the 32-bit cold-reset entry point */
+
 	movl    $0x18,%eax	/* Load our segement registes, the
 				 * gdt have already been loaded by start16.S */
 	movw    %ax,%fs
@@ -42,6 +62,18 @@ _start:
 	movw    %ax,%es
 	movw    %ax,%ss
 
+	/* Clear the interupt vectors */
+	lidt	blank_idt_ptr
+
+	/*
+	 * Skip low-level board and memory initialization if not starting
+	 * from cold-reset. This allows us to do a fail safe boot-strap
+	 * into a new build of U-Boot from a known-good boot flash
+	 */
+	movw	$0x0001, %ax
+	cmpw	%ax, %bx
+	jne	mem_init_ret
+
 	/* We call a few functions in the board support package
 	 * since we have no stack yet we'll have to use %ebp
 	 * to store the return address */
@@ -138,3 +170,7 @@ stack_ok:
 die:	hlt
 	jmp	die
 	hlt
+
+blank_idt_ptr:
+	.word	0		/* limit */
+	.long	0		/* base */
diff --git a/arch/i386/cpu/start16.S b/arch/i386/cpu/start16.S
index 1ebb6bc8b6..5e33aa1069 100644
--- a/arch/i386/cpu/start16.S
+++ b/arch/i386/cpu/start16.S
@@ -45,10 +45,8 @@ board_init16_ret:
 	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 @@ o32 cs	lgdt	gdt_ptr
 	/* 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 @@ code32start:
 	.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 */
diff --git a/board/eNET/config.mk b/board/eNET/config.mk
index dcde7fcedb..63a58fdc50 100644
--- a/board/eNET/config.mk
+++ b/board/eNET/config.mk
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 # MA 02111-1307 USA
 #
 
-TEXT_BASE = 0x38040000
+TEXT_BASE = 0x06000000
 CFLAGS_common/dlmalloc.o += -Wa,--no-warn -fno-strict-aliasing
 PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fvisibility=hidden
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm
diff --git a/board/eNET/u-boot.lds b/board/eNET/u-boot.lds
index 0d740215ce..7b0ffaa6cc 100644
--- a/board/eNET/u-boot.lds
+++ b/board/eNET/u-boot.lds
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ ENTRY(_start)
 
 SECTIONS
 {
-	. = 0x38040000;		/* Location of bootcode in flash */
+	. = 0x06000000;		/* Location of bootcode in flash */
 	_i386boot_text_start = .;
 	.text  : { *(.text); }
 
@@ -97,14 +97,13 @@ SECTIONS
 	 * at reset and the code have to fit.
 	 * The fff0 offset of resetvec is important, however.
 	 */
-
 	. = 0xfffffe00;
-	.start32 : AT (0x3807fe00) { *(.start32); }
+	.start32 : AT (0x0603fe00) { *(.start32); }
 
 	. = 0xf800;
-	.start16 : AT (0x3807f800) { *(.start16); }
+	.start16 : AT (0x0603f800) { *(.start16); }
 
 	. = 0xfff0;
-	.resetvec : AT (0x3807fff0) { *(.resetvec); }
+	.resetvec : AT (0x0603fff0) { *(.resetvec); }
 	_i386boot_end = (LOADADDR(.resetvec) + SIZEOF(.resetvec) );
 }