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Finalize ROM-Less Booting

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Wayne Warthen
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@@ -223,6 +223,18 @@ initialization routine. At this point, the prior HBIOS code has been
discarded and overwritten. Finally, the Boot Loader is invoked just like
a ROM Boot.
ROM-less Boot
-------------
Some hardware supported by RomWBW has a special mechanism for loading
the initial code. These systems have no ROM chips. However, they
have a small hardware bootstrap that loads a chunk of code from a
disk device directlly into RAM at system startup.
The startup then proceeds very much like the Application Boot
process described above. HBIOS is installed in it's operating bank
and control is passed to the loader.
Notes
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