RE: [Qemu-devel] Re: BIOS behaves different as real BIOS

[Natalia Portillo]

Excuse me, where are the CMOS RAM values in qemu :? 

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> En nombre de Ben Pfaff
> Enviado el: sábado, 17 de julio de 2004 7:40
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> Asunto: [Qemu-devel] Re: BIOS behaves different as real BIOS
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> "Natalia Portillo" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I think that this is because the BIOS searches for the 0x55AA 
> > signature on last two bytes of first sector of disk.
> > As far as I remember, this signature was introduced very 
> lately and as 
> > far as I tested on my real systems, this signature is not really 
> > searched at boot time, and every DOS before 3.0 doesn't 
> have it (it is 
> > used also by later DOSes and Windows to identify a FAT 
> filesystem), at 
> > least on floppies
> 
> You can disable the signature check by setting byte 0x38 in 
> the CMOS RAM to a nonzero value.
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