<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:arial">On 12 September 2013 12:41, Oliver Rath </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial"><<a href="mailto:rath@mglug.de" target="_blank">rath@mglug.de</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial"> wrote:</span><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">is the following scenario possible:<br></blockquote><div><br></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">IIRC, no. My knowledge on these things is very rusty (>10 years) but once you've entered protected mode, you can't re-enter real mode (with certain provisos introduced with the 80386 chip). What that means is that once you've said "give me the full capabilities of the system" you can't then revert to a boot environment without going through a warm reboot. In real mode, you only have 1MB addressable memory. I believe memdisk etc use some sort of shim header​​ that allows you to write to extra RAM and then put the program counter at the boot sequence -- but that's not sitting pretty in my head. I'm sure someone can fill in the cavernous gaps in my knowledge -- or just say "what you suggest isn't feasible".</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">Sorry!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">
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