On 01/27/2011 07:47 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

Yes - but at least a long time ago there used to be modi of reboot when the 
BIOS did
not do this. Whether that's possible at all with modern BIOSen is a
big question ...

As I recall that was how you went from 32bit mode to 16bit real mode.
The issue is that mode never reset the hardware it simply changed the
cpu mode.


Quite correct. It doesn't just bypass the memory wipe, it bypasses the entire POST.

        -hpa

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