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|    BIOS vs UEFI    |
|    20 Oct 21 16:42:05    |
      From: muta...@gmail.com              It seems to me that the BIOS concept of reading the       first sector of the disk into memory and immediately       executing it, from offset 0, is a lot cleaner than the       UEFI concept of requiring a FAT-formatted disk with       subdirectories.              If you're going to go for the latter option of a FAT-formatted       disk, shouldn't it be something internal to the computer, on       a flash drive, that results in loading the first sector from the hard       disk and executing it, but perhaps in PM32 or LM64 instead       of RM16?              Passing the UEFI data structure to the code on the first       sector would seem to be more appropriate than doing       interrupts though.              BFN. Paul.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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