Re: Can a rescue floppy load some modules before the installer starts?

[Kaz Sasayama <Kaz.Sasayama@HyperLinuxJP.com>]

No, I had a report of a brand PC without both the legacy interface and 
the legacy emulation, and that the official Debian 2.2 CD did not boot. 
 They appears to have just made the PC for Windows only, not for other OSs.

Maybe the BIOS on such a machine hides the hardware difference well so 
that most legacy programs can get input from the USB keyboard through 
the modified BIOS.  Any direct keyboard hardware access is possibly no 
longer supported on such a machine.

Eduard Bloch wrote:

> Wait, wait, don't the modern BIOSes have emulation mode for common
> legacy hardware? I cannot believe they would abolish all the support for
> non-USB-aware operating systems, this would make all the stuff like boot
> managers and required DOS tools unuseable.


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