Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:02:15 +0000 (GMT) | From | John Hayward-Warburton <> | Subject | Re: Flash linux into PC bios? |
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> But the fact it could boot a floppy means that memory, PCI bus, CPLDs etc... > were initialized. All this initialization is done by the BIOS. So there was > still a small piece of BIOS code left, probably in the write protected region > of the FlashPROM.
Isn't this the emergency boot-loader of the BIOS (see the documentation that comes with some flash BIOS loaders, e.g. Gigabyte and others) that allows you to recover from an interrupted BIOS flash? A sort-of "last chance saloon" that looks for BIOS code on the floppy and tries to flash from it?
JHW
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