On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:58:12 +0800 Leslie Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That means that BIOS saves the current drive number in register %dl?? > > Could you give a hint about _where_ BIOS stores _what_?? > I've searched the google.com, but got no valuable resource. a great tool for system near stuff is the intlist by ralph brown: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/ralf/pub/WWW/files.html here you can find a HTMLized version: http://www.ctyme.com/rbrown.htm and here stuff specific to your question. don't let it irritate you, the BIOS does the same on power on and INT 19 except for some more init on power on that does not affect the boot strapping: http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-2270.htm cheerz corecode -- /"\ http://corecode.ath.cx/ \ / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign / \ Against HTML Mail and News
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