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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 14:22:46 -0500
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, questions@freebsd.org
From: "Tim M. Kelley" <tkelley@cy.com>
Subject: Re: custom boot from floppy
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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:
>