Re: MILO vs BIOS on Linux/Intel.

Stephan Meyer (Stephan.Meyer@pobox.com)
Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:21:23 +0100 (CET)

On 11 Feb 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> would get you a serial-console into the BIOS setup! Does anyone know if
> a general BIOS setup screen uses INT10 or if it writes to video memory
> directly?

My humble guess is that it does use Int10 to ensure maximum compatibility
with all kinds of video cards. The video bios is provided by the video
board itself.

But this really is just an assumption :)

> Mike.

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