Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 22:11:25 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jonathan Mini <mini@d198-232.uoregon.edu> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, wghhicks@ix.netcom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: x86 gods; advice? Suggestions? Message-ID: <199711081141.WAA01216@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Nov 1997 03:16:30 -0800." <19971108031630.47892@micron.mini.net>
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> > > > If you can roll a bootloader that uses just the BIOS and has a > > footprint around 7k, you'll have our attention... > > 7k? wow. You've got more space than I thought you did. (by a lot) Not really; there's a lot of work behind the scenes in there. At any rate, there's one track less one sector on the smallest supported boot media. Right now that's 15-sector disks (1.2MB); it's not unreasonable to suggest that it might rise to 17 sectors at some stage, but not much likely to rise above that. mike
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