Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 19:20:40 +0100 From: "DI. Christian Gusenbauer" <Christian.Gusenbauer@utimaco.co.at> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD-current users <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>, Christian.Gusenbauer@safeconcept.utimaco.co.at Subject: Re: cdrom boot? Message-ID: <32934BF8.471A@utimaco.co.at> References: <199611201711.SAA17068@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch wrote: > > As DI. Christian Gusenbauer wrote: > > > Make a DOS bootable floppy, copy fbsdboot.exe on it, edit autoexec.bat > > and add a line like "fbsdboot -C -D f:\kernel" (f = CD-ROM drive) and that's > > it. > > Dosboot... the source code in the tree looks fairly outdated. > Christian, can you see to update it? It would also be fine to find a Yes, I know. There's a big lack of spare-time ... > method to automatically generate the header files out of the genuine > headers, so they can't disagree. It would be even better if we could Yeah, that would be fine ;-) > get it to compile with bcc(1) and finally make a .com file out of it. > > ;-) I tried to port fbsdboot to bcc a year ago. Unfortunately, bcc doesn't understand inline assembler statements (AFAIR) and I'm not very familar with the unix assembler. Does bcc support 32bit pointers/addresses (like the 'far' masm statement)? Christian. -- Christian Gusenbauer Christian.Gusenbauer@utimaco.co.at
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