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Acoording to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS_Interrupt_Calls

Int 19h is used to load the OS.

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: V.SriSaiGanesh <sai.engrsai@gmail.com>
> Hi All,
> 
> I was going through the Architecture Handbook(Link:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot-bios.html).
> In this page they have mentioned following phrase "The very last thing in
> the POST is the INT 0x19 instruction. That instruction reads 512 bytes from
> the first sector of boot device into the memory at address 0x7c00". AFAIK
> INT0x19 is a reboot service. So I got confused. Can somebody clarify my
> doubt on INT0x19 (reboot or bootstraping)
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> SaiGanesh
> 
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