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Sample BIOS and Boot Loader

The best way to get a good sense of what’s really going on when the processor gets control of the machine during power-on is to take a look at some code. Fortunately, several Open Source projects are attempting to produce a usable BIOS for the x86 architecture. Each project is quite young at the time of this writing, so ...

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