Re: regarding 0x7c00

["G.L.Suresh" <sureshgl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I Guess this is not the MBR standard, this is the BIOS standard,
according to which we write 
MBR, I mean If BIOS decides to keep the MBR at some other location, we
have to code the MBR 
accordingly.
--GL

"Kondaiah (IE10)" wrote:
> 
> 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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