From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 30 13:18:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA16916 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 13:18:33 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA16906 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 13:18:26 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA26050 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 22:18:22 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA25708 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 22:18:20 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA07122 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 21:59:57 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510302059.VAA07122@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: boot disk.... To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 21:59:57 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199510300839.TAA14176@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Oct 30, 95 07:39:00 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 485 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)