On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Stefan Bambach wrote: > So all linuxbios does is the lowest level of functions to initialize > the hardware, such is init RAM, PCI, GFX, ... .
yes. > And the OS itself have to do the rest; such is sending data to e.g. hd > directly through out/in commands to port. They have to code thing like > "read sector xy from hd". This is what the BIOS INT functions does > normally. Is this roughtly right ? no modern OS relies on the BIOS to do disk I/O. Bootstrap programs do. DOS relies on the BIOS for disk I/O - but DOS is not a modern OS :-) ron
