Actually, on my PoqetPC Classic, you can specify which you want to
boot from if you hold the Poqet logo key at boot up.
LouisX
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote:
> David Murn writes:
> >
> > On Mon, 3 May 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote:
> >
> > > The problem is that the only disk driver we have working yet is the one
> > > that uses BIOS routines to access the disk. After DOS is loaded the int 13h
> > > entry in the VII which initially points to this BIOS routine is replaced.
> > >
> > > BootELKS gets round this by having an image of the VII before DOS was
> > > loaded, and loading this into the VII before the kernel is started, giving
> > > the kernel access to the BIOS routines.
> >
> > Oh, in that case it's easy, we simply write a little chunk of code to put
> > at the start of a disk, which simply copies the VII to some point later in
> > the disk, to be retrieved by a DOS program.
> >
>
> The problem is that with palmtops which boot from ROM we don't have access
> to the machine until DOS has started. There is no boot disk, so we cannot
> put any code on it.
>
> Al
>
