Re: BIOS Programming

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From: Andrue Cope [TeamB]
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:35

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Tom|420 wrote:

> You cannot tell a BIOS to load an OS. All the BIOS does is load the
> first sector of your first drive and give it control, hoping that it
> will load the OS or anything else which is going to take control of
> the machine.

Indeed. It's also worth noting (if the OP is actually trying to write a
BIOS) that modern OSes don't use the BIOS themselves. Once they have
control they kick the BIOS out of the address space and do everything
themselves.

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Andrue Cope [TeamB]
[Bicester, Uk]
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