[comp.sys.ibm.pc] BIOS ROMs

brian@chemo.uucp (Brian J. McGinness) (05/28/87)

wjr@rayssd.RAY.COM asked if there is a way to view the BIOS ROMS without
pulling them out of the machine. Use debug! In the XT the roms live at
F000:6000 through F000:FFFF. The boot location is F000:E000. The stuff
below that is casette basic. On the AT, the ROMs are interleaved (even
bits in one ROM, odd bits in the other) but debug will still read the
info correctly, the interleaving is in the hardware scheme.

If you want to save the info (for backup purposes of course!) you have
to manually set up the PSP in debug using the "n" (name) command,
the "r" command to put the file legnth in BX:CX, then use the "w"
command to write the file to dissm