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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 21:18:50 -0800
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: bootloader & memory test...
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Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> Julian Elischer stands accused of saying:
> >
> > The FreeBSD botblocks set themselves to be in a flat  32bit address
> > space as well. They do use up more of the bottom 640K,
> > (but you can control where they put themselves in ram at compile time)
> >
> > so it should be possible to add the function into one of the
> > .s files
> 
> I thought the bootblocks were fill'd to overflowing?
> 
> Still, the bootblock in question is full of 'bde' comments.  Is there
> a bootloader _anywhere_ in the free Unix world that Bruce _hasn't_ been
> involved in? 8)
I was thinking more in line of cloning that code as a starting point
fpr a stand-alone memory tester..
dd it to to a floppy and reboot for a test..:)