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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>No, FreeBSD doesn't use int 0x19, it doesn't have access to the BIOS,
>and all int 0x19 does is just jumping to 0xffff0.  (Unless a virus has
>been trapping int 0x19 while you were in DOS. :-)

Erm, int 0x19 loads the boostrap at 0x7c0:0 and jumps to it.  It is
fairly useless even under DOS in real mode because there might be
hooked interrupt vectors pointing to code that gets overwritten by
loading or running the boostrap.

Bruce