Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 15:49:08 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install to second hard-drive... Message-ID: <Mutt.19970223154908.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <5770.856702695@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Feb 23, 1997 04:58:15 -0800 References: <199702231204.MAA14310@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <5770.856702695@time.cdrom.com>
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > So just one bit of first-hand testimony that booteasy may not quite be > a 100% solution. :-( UTSL. BootEasy is only prepared to handle two disks. However, it's also buggy in that it thinks that anything other than two disks must mean `one disk': cmp BYTE PTR DS:NumDisks,2 ; is the second disk present? je have2disks ; have disk 2 The `je' needs to be changed into a `jge' (or is it `jae'? too long ago i've been hacking DOS asm last time) in order to at least do two disks if more than two are present. Fixing it for handling an arbitrary number of disks is more complicated, since it make weird assumptions all over the place. -- 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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