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Andrew Smallshaw schreef:
has its own Flash or (EPROM in the old days). Unfortunately it works in
real mode only, and standardization for the software interfaces appears
to have stopped around 1988. The elderly among us probably still
remember Ralf Browns interrupt list.
That was originally the intention with the IBM PC, e.g. the video cardOn 2010-05-05, Stuart Longland <redhatter@gentoo.org> wrote:
On Apr 27, 9:07?pm, John Tserkezis
j...@techniciansyndrome.org.invalid> wrote:
?No idea about Vista, but have installed Win7 several times so far, and
yes, your only option is F6 to look at drive A:.
Good grief, and here I was thinking Microsoft _finally_ got around to
fixing that. (I mean, cripes... at least look at a flaming CD
fellas?!)
That can create problems in the truly general case. Think about
it: you are loading drivers for an HBA and want to get them from
a CD-ROM, potentially attached to that very same HBA...
I think USB could be difficult due to the fact that the initial loader
(in the case of Windows XP and earlier) started in DOS, loaded the
drivers into RAM then kickstarted the NT kernel from there, but one
would have thought that on modern systems, the BIOS should still at
least allow some access to USB drives. And clearly CD-ROMs are
accessible as it loads the rest of the drivers that way.
That would seem the most natural PC way of doing things. I'm not
really familiar with the Windows boot process anymore but there
has to be _some_ point early on where the BIOS is still readily
accessible and kernel modules can easily be loaded.
Of course the most elegant way would be to place basic get-you-home
drivers on the device itself.
has its own Flash or (EPROM in the old days). Unfortunately it works in
real mode only, and standardization for the software interfaces appears
to have stopped around 1988. The elderly among us probably still
remember Ralf Browns interrupt list.