Quoting Peter Stuge stuge-linuxbios@cdy.org:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:49:18AM -0400, joe@smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/nuni/
It is a bios independent bootloader
Not really..
--8<-- nunimbr.asm start iobase equ start-8 ;overlay some variables ext_start equ start-4 mov AH,2 ;check for shift, ctrl, or alt int 0x16 and AL,0xF jz f1 ;use default if none pressed prompt ;errors jump to command prompt call Input -->8--
It uses BIOS interrupt services to read and write characters.
While the code is trivial and easy enough to replace with serial io nuni is in no way completely independent of a BIOS.
//Peter
Hmm, than the project details are a little bit misleading. It would be kind of cool to see it as a payload though....
Thanks - Joe