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From: "Maxim S. Shatskih" <maxim@storagecraft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,alt.os.development
Subject: Re: power down
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:40:11 +0300
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    Sorry, I'm not a native English speaker, and maybe it is a must to be a
native Anglophone to understand the semantic difference between "needed" and
"required".

> A least one BIOS made the mistake of jumping to 07c0:0000 instead of
> 0000:7c00 due to the poor wording of the El Torito specification.  It wasn't
> Compaq though:
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.lang.asm/msg/8f933a34ab8701e7

I personally saw Compaq Presario dated 1999 (Pentium MMX 266, S3 Trio, 64M RAM,
4GB disk) jumping to 07c0:0000, yes, with El Torito boot sector.

-- 
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
maxim@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com


