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SubjectRE: tools to repair damaged /dev/hda1 boot record
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Jones D (ISaCS) wrote:

> > you cannot generally invoke BIOS services when the operating system is
> > running, except for well-defined interfaces like APM or PCI
> > BIOS.
>
> There is also lrmi, which allows BIOS calls from usermode.
> available from http://userweb.interactive.net/~joshv/
>

ok, but is that allowing to use BIOS services for disk and such? I thought
since the booting has overwritten important (for BIOS) tables in low
memory those services can no longer be used. Is this true or false?

Regards,
Tigran


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