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   mutazilah@gmail.com to wolfgang kern   
   Re: This newsgroup. (1/3)   
   23 Mar 23 07:45:56   
   
   From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   Ok, finally back at my computer.   
      
   On Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 7:25:24 PM UTC+8, wolfgang kern wrote:   
      
   > So what is the UEFI equivalent to INT13 and how can I make it boot my    
   > old stuff from either CD or USB ?   
      
   As mentioned, if all you need is a bit of code loaded,   
   you don't need to anything at all except plonk a   
   bootx64.efi into \efi\boot of a FAT-formatted disk.   
      
   Here is some assembler code:   
      
   C:\devel\pdos\pdpclib\xxx3>type efi64.asm   
   # Written by Paul Edwards   
   # Released to the public domain   
      
      
   .code64   
   .intel_syntax noprefix   
      
      
   .globl efimain   
   efimain:   
      
   # ret is 1 byte, jmp is 2 bytes   
   # So for testing, comment out the jmp and add 2 rets   
      
   # xxx: jmp xxx   
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   C:\devel\pdos\pdpclib\xxx3>   
      
      
   The assembler can be compiled and linked like this   
   (with mingw64 for Windows)   
      
   C:\devel\pdos\pdpclib\xxx3>type doit.bat   
   x86_64-w64-mingw32-as -o efi64.o efi64.asm   
   x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld -s -subsystem 10 -e efimain -nostdlib -o bootx64.efi   
   efi64.o   
      
   C:\devel\pdos\pdpclib\xxx3>   
      
      
      
   Here are two executables:   
      
   C:\vbox\x64test\efi\boot>dir   
    Volume in drive C has no label.   
    Volume Serial Number is 4E58-AF11   
      
    Directory of C:\vbox\x64test\efi\boot   
      
   2023-03-23  22:17              .   
   2023-03-23  22:17              ..   
   2023-03-23  22:17             2,048 bootx64.efi   
   2023-03-23  22:15             2,048 loop.efi   
      
   C:\vbox\x64test\efi\boot>hexdump loop.efi   
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   000060  74206265 2072756E 20696E20 444F5320  t be run in DOS   
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