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Date:      Sat, 13 Jul 2002 18:31:36 +0900
From:      Alexander Nedotsukov <bland@mail.ru>
To:        Mike Gratton <mike@vee.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bootstrap loader + USB keyboard no-worky [was: Do VIA 83C572 USB controllers suck or is it just me?]
Message-ID:  <3D2FF378.5040500@mail.ru>
References:  <3D2CFC98.8010803@quack.kfu.com> <3D2E1E39.4070601@quack.kfu.com> <3D2E3A2D.50303@vee.net> <3D2E8A14.7040004@mail.ru> <3D2FCABA.9010804@vee.net>

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Mike,

Mike Gratton wrote:

> It's interesting, however, that the MBR bootloader(?) - as opposed to 
> the bootstrap loader - works fine. And I assume that it accesses the 
> keyboard in a similar fashion.

That's correct. boot0 uses same BIOS calls. The difference is it's very 
small program which runs in real cpu mode and do not need a20 line open, 
boot2 runs in protected mode and needs it but the method used to do this 
is not always correct.

-- Alexander




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