Tim Streater wrote:
In article ,
Jules Richardson wrote:

Yes, I don't think there's much BIOS interaction once a modern OS has
booted, but the point is that BIOS code *is* run at system startup ...

Only if you have a machine with a BIOS.

I am not sure how you bootstrap an OS without a modicum of BIOS or at
least a ROM based boot loader.

Unless the whole machine runs out of ROM..



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