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Date:      Mon, 30 Oct 1995 21:59:57 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: boot disk....
Message-ID:  <199510302059.VAA07122@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199510300839.TAA14176@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Oct 30, 95 07:39:00 pm

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As Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> Use .COM format and .org 0x100 or maybe .space 0x100 to pad the header,
> and strip the header after building it.  Oops, I forgot about 32-bitness.
> The techniques used in biosboot only work if DOS is in real mode.

bcc works.

Perhaps ld86 could also generate a messy dos EXE relocation table?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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