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    If you find an answer yourself, do post it as an answer below, instead of editing it into the question. (You can accept your own answers after some time.)
    – grawity_u1686
    Commented Sep 15, 2011 at 17:39
  • The book Upgrading and repairing PCs it mentions a memory location the first one the CPU reads from.. And there's a process old CS teachers teach that may still apply, called bootstrapping, as in pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, which is how (the foundation of) an OS gets loaded.
    – barlop
    Commented Sep 15, 2011 at 20:20