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Booting from the CPU Reset Vector

This process is similar to booting from a BIOS extension. However, no BIOS is required. RTTarget-32 controls the complete boot process which starts at 16 bytes before the end of the physical address space after power-on or reset.

To boot from the reset vector, BootVector, BootCode (either Boot.exe or Pmboot.exe), and BootData must be specified in Locate commands. The BootVector must be located at the end of physical address space minus 16. All program entities having an image must be located in ROM. The complete system initializations must be performed using OUT and InitCode commands, since no BIOS code is executed. In particular, the motherboard chip set and - if dynamic RAMs are used - the RAM refresh must be initialized.

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