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int13h

May 19th, 2012, 1:02

Hello! Give that a feature?
Code:
mov ax,549F
int 13

Nowhere else can not find a description. :(

Re: int13h

May 20th, 2012, 10:34

I haven't seen that specific call to int 13h before. Depending on what you are trying to reverse-engineer, the code could be in the BIOS (real or virtualised), or in a software int 13h handler extension, that is loaded after boot, or .... (You know what you are doing - you haven't told us that information, so I won't try to guess. :) )

If I was trying to find out what that code did, I would trace the call flow for the int 13h handler. There is usually the equivalent of some type of "switch-like" statement early in the handler for different ah values - then investigate what happens with ah=0x54 :)

Re: int13h

May 20th, 2012, 13:01

thanks for responding. I thought that this forum is dead), I disassemble the secondary boot BCDW, and there I met this function. Apparently it is undocumented.

Re: int13h

May 20th, 2012, 18:52

Congratulations on finding it :)
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