From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 23 06:51:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA13654 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 06:51:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA13648 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 06:51:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA23444 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 15:51:34 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA08689; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 15:49:09 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 15:49:08 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install to second hard-drive... References: <199702231204.MAA14310@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <5770.856702695@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <5770.856702695@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Feb 23, 1997 04:58:15 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > So just one bit of first-hand testimony that booteasy may not quite be > a 100% solution. :-( UTSL. BootEasy is only prepared to handle two disks. However, it's also buggy in that it thinks that anything other than two disks must mean `one disk': cmp BYTE PTR DS:NumDisks,2 ; is the second disk present? je have2disks ; have disk 2 The `je' needs to be changed into a `jge' (or is it `jae'? too long ago i've been hacking DOS asm last time) in order to at least do two disks if more than two are present. Fixing it for handling an arbitrary number of disks is more complicated, since it make weird assumptions all over the place. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)