Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 11:35:10 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: help for a floppy boot sector Message-ID: <199701261035.LAA27794@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Hi, I am looking for some floppy boot code which allows you to build a bootable floppy which can start a .COM file without the need for MSDOS. Two applications: netboot (which produces a .COM file) for people who cannot burn an eprom, and my bridge code (available from my home page, based on netboot), same problem. Ideally I would do something like cat bootcode nb8390.com | dd of=/dev/fd0a to produce a bootable floppy. I figure out I could perhaps use the standard boot sectors for an a.out executable, but patching them to handle .COM file is probably more trouble than necessary. Maybe the bootcode in use for PCEMU can do the job ? Thanks Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________
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