Re: How to do a warm-boot from a C program

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From: James R. Howard
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 21:24

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In article <P#$#92_@rpi.edu>, mcintyre@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David
McIntyre) writes:
> jimmy writes:
> >Does anyone know how to do a boot from a C program?
> 
> Yes, just do an Interrupt 25 (which is 19h).  That will do it nicely.
> 
  [ rest deleted ]

That will work, but there are some cases were TSR's and varying machine BIOS
will lock up on an int 19h call.  This of course "should" work, but there are
numerous machines floating around that will lock when trying this with the
right combination in autoexec/config.

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From: jrh@mustang.dell.com (James R. Howard)
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Subject: Re: How to do a warm-boot from a C program
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Date: 20 Feb 90 21:24:05 GMT
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