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Old Sep 6th, 2005, 10:16 PM   #9
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Alright, well perhaps the question mark icon at the top didn't exactly specify what I meant. I'm not interested in being critiqued on WHY I'm doing this, whether it be a waste of time or unreasonable to the rest of you. I came here to humbly ask for help and assistance, perhaps this was the wrong place to do that. It's a waste of time yes, it's asinine sure, thank you for your opinions.

Now can someone tell me how to structure a program that will boot itself up from a floppy, without using any of the BIOS or DOS interrupts or gates? All it has to do is display a pixel or a character or anything against a background of some different color. Do I have to place the descriptor for the segments, will placing these descriptors somewhere in memory somehow override other more important code, how do I get the program to execute, etc.?

Again, I realize I'm wasting my time, I realize my reasons are unreasonable, but if you have the time to tell me that I would much rather you spend it helping me solve the problem rather than telling me why not to do so. However, if you feel obligated to let me know how oblivious and mistaken I am please post somewhere else.
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