Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:52:45 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | RE: tools to repair damaged /dev/hda1 boot record |
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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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