[LinuxBIOS] reliable boot loader

[joe at smittys.pointclark.net]

Quoting Peter Stuge <stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org>:

> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:49:18AM -0400, joe at 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