From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 26 03:17:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA02206 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 03:17:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA02201 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 03:17:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id LAA27794 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 11:35:10 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199701261035.LAA27794@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: help for a floppy boot sector To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 11:35:10 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I am looking for some floppy boot code which allows you to build a bootable floppy which can start a .COM file without the need for MSDOS. Two applications: netboot (which produces a .COM file) for people who cannot burn an eprom, and my bridge code (available from my home page, based on netboot), same problem. Ideally I would do something like cat bootcode nb8390.com | dd of=/dev/fd0a to produce a bootable floppy. I figure out I could perhaps use the standard boot sectors for an a.out executable, but patching them to handle .COM file is probably more trouble than necessary. Maybe the bootcode in use for PCEMU can do the job ? Thanks Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________