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i'm writing some code to simulate the boot progress after power on
but when i try to read the 2nd sector from a floppy disk, this operation always fail with ah=0x80h which means timeout, how can i get over this problem?
my code would be like this:
$ cat boot.S
.code16
#define SETUPLEN 4... (0 Replies)
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2. Linux
i'm writing some code to simulate the boot progress after power on
but when i try to read the 2nd sector from a floppy disk, this operation always fail with ah=0x80h which means timeout, how can i get over this problem?
my code would be like this:
$ cat boot.S
.code16
#define SETUPLEN 4... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: wljackhero
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i'm writing some code to simulate the boot progress after power on
but when i try to read the 2nd sector from a floppy disk, this operation always fail with ah=0x80h which means timeout, how can i get over this problem?
my code would be like this:
$ cat boot.S
.code16
#define SETUPLEN 4... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: wljackhero
0 Replies
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