Microsoft tries to block Linux off Windows 8 PCs

D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Fri Oct 21 05:15:30 UTC 2011


| From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>

|   Did linux installs use BIOS calls???

LILO did (for booting).  It is pretty hard to fit a native HD driver
within the 512-byte limit of a boot sector, along with everything
else.

Grub's first stage(s) (at least) use BIOS calls for the same reason.

But running Linux (including normal installers) use the raw hardware.
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