> How do you do that? I have a computer that has no "setup", but I
downloaded
> a setup program that runs from DOS from the companies FTP site.
Well, the first thing I try is to call the ROM BASIC (INT 18h) - on non-IBM
machines it doesn't exist and causes Something To Happen. My AMI machines
all go into a beeping loop and print 'NO ROM BASIC SYSTEM HALTED', while the
Phoneix 286 would go 'boot error - Press F2 for setup, F1 to continue' -
apparently it used that interrupt as a generic boot failure, as that's what
IBMs did.
It should be possible to look at the ROM BIOS code itself and see if it has
a setup program itself.
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