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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: BIOS behaves different as real BIOS
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"Natalia Portillo" <claunia@claunia.com> writes:

[nonzero value at 0x38 in CMOS disables boot signature check]
> Does this value in CMOS do anything in a real BIOS?

I don't think so--it's not documented in Ralf Brown's list of
CMOS bytes.

> Where is it documented?

I just noticed that that was was the Bochs BIOS did while looking
through the BIOS source one day.
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