Why do the bytes “0xea 0000 ffff” in a bootloader cause the computer to reboot?
问题 I was researching boot loaders and I found this interesting piece of assembly: ;Sends us to the end of the memory ;causing reboot db 0x0ea dw 0x0000 dw 0xffff By the comment I know what it does; sends the computer to the end of memory, but what I can't figure out is how those numbers reboot the computer (x86_64 processor on 16-bit mode). 回答1: Those bytes correspond to jmp word 0xffff:0000 (you can see this by assembling with NASM and then disassembling the resulting binary), which happens to