[syslinux] memdisk - reboot loaded image
Quinn
plattel at tiscali.dk
Thu Apr 7 03:39:19 PDT 2005
QEMM386.SYS has been using this technique for years. The feature is
called Quickboot. I've tested it with
memdisk and it works perfectly. Anything I write to the ramdisk is
still there when using Quickboot - and as the
name implies it is "quick". QEMM386 redirects the reboot handler for
CTRL-ALT-DEL so when I press CTRL-ALT-DEL
it skips POST and boots from the memdisk image in memory. :-)
Quinn
Marc Haisenko wrote:
>On Wednesday 06 April 2005 02:00, Murali Krishnan Ganapathy wrote:
>
>
>>To reboot
>>---------
>>You can write a really small program to do this.
>>Create a file called "reboot.com". The assembly code should be
>>
>>JMP FFFF:0000
>>
>>thats it. This location contains the BIOS code which reboots the
>>machine. You should be able to create this using the "debug.exe" utility
>>in three lines.
>>
>>If you are unable to do this, let me know, I will try to get the .COM file.
>>
>>
>
>This would be a cold boot, then. To warm boot you'd have to store the 1234h in
>the word at 0040:0072. It's been a few years since I've written x86 assembler
>programs so I can't write it down in assembler :-)
>C'ya,
> Marc
>
>
>
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