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On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 11:25 AM Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> |
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> On Wednesday, 23 December 2020 09:54:36 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> > On 22/12/2020 14:58, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > Greetings, |
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> > > Just a quickie - is there a way to enable a machine built on an MSDOS |
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BIOS |
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> > A *what* BIOS? Do mean you run MS-DOS as on OS? |
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> What would you call it? |
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> $ file /boot/boot.0800: DOS/MBR boot sector. |
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> Regards, |
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> Peter. |
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Are you possibly conflating BIOS which is computer code in ROM on the |
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motherboard and what the CPU runs on power up with the MBR which resides on |
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the hard drive you are booting from? |
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