Re: bootsect.S and magic address 0x78

Sean Estabrooks (seanlkml@rogers.com)
Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:00:59 -0400


> Hello Linus,
>
>
> Can you tell me where this magic address 0x78 in arch/i386/bootsect.S
> refers to? I mean, is this somewhere specified?
>
> Many thanks and cheers from germany.
>
> Gerrit

> Hello Linus,
>
>
> Can you tell me where this magic address 0x78 in arch/i386/bootsect.S
> refers to? I mean, is this somewhere specified?
>

Hope you'll settle for an answer from a simple lkml lurker and not the top
gun.

The address 0x78 points to the floppy disk drive parameter table
described here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~matrix/fdd_pt.html

A list of all the low memory ROM BIOS vectors and addresses can be
found here: http://www.cybertrails.com/~fys/rombios.htm

Cheers,
Sean

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