🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 07 May 1999 12:48:44 GMT, budgie put finger to keyboard and
composed:

>The strangest thing has just happened to my kids' '486 ......
>
>Boot priority is set to A; C: and when a non-bootable floppy is left
>in at bootup, the error message "Drive not ready or non-system disk"
>etc etc appears in FRENCH.  This is new!  While I understand enough
>French to get by on, I'd like it back in English.
>
>Country code etc settings are fine, unaltered.  McAfee VirusScan gives
>machine a clean bill of health.  No file on the entire machine
>contains these French words.  It isn't a BIOS option either (AMI).
>
>Any constructive suggestions will be welcome.
>
>"Pierre"

I once dumped the Phoenix BIOS in a DEC PC at the local TAFE college
and was surprised to find foreign language (Spanish?) text strings.

You can dump your own BIOS using the DOS DEBUG command as follows:

 DEBUG
 -Df000:0,ffff

Or you can search for a particular string:

 -Sf000:0,ffff,"case_sensitive_search_string"

The search results will be in the form "F000:offset".

To see the relevant string, type 

 -Df000:offset

To dump the boot sector of a floppy diskette in drive A:, type

 -L100,0,0,1
 -D100,2ff


-- Franc Zabkar

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