RE: regarding 0x7c00

["Kondaiah (IE10)" <Kondaiah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

0x7c00 is the MBR(master boot record)standard.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	kamesh jayachandran [SMTP:kameshj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Monday, December 25, 2000 2:10 PM
> To:	linux-india-programmers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	[LIP] regarding 0x7c00
> 
> Hai list,
> I have read the following lines in "Linux Device Drivers" By Alessandro 
> Rubini.
> "Setting Up the X86 Processors
> Once the boot device has been selected ,its first sector is loaded in to 
> memory at address 0x7c00 and given control"
> what is the significance of this memory address 0x7c00?
> what is realmode?
> Thanks in advance
> 
> kamesh jayachandran
> SoftWare Engineer 
> PlanetAsia.com
> Bangalore
> See my work at www.electricalmachine.com
> 
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