Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 14:22:46 -0500 From: "Tim M. Kelley" <tkelley@cy.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: custom boot from floppy Message-ID: <199601252029.PAA26950@cy.com>
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If I make the outlined changes described below and compile, how do I get the resulting executable onto a floppy so that I can use it as a boot floppy? At 03:37 PM 1/23/96 +1030, Michael Smith wrote: >Tim M. Kelley stands accused of saying: >> >> I want to set up a custom boot from a boot floppy. Specifically, >> I want the boot floppy to automatically search for the kernel as follows: >> >> wd(2,a)/kernel >> >> How can I accomplish this? > >It's quite possible that you can't, depending on whether your BIOS >supports drives beyond 0x81. If you want to try, make the following mods to >to /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/boot.c : > > /***************************************************************\ > * Boot from wd(2,a) instead. * > \***************************************************************/ > part = 0; > unit = 2; > drive = 0x82; > maj = 0; > >loadstart: >
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