I've found a quite intereseting project in the URL:
http://www.han.de/~gero/netboot.html
Perhaps we should cooperate with the project, because both the
projects are working on PC bootstrap and are GPLed.
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OKUJI Yoshinori <[
> Then, you also need to load the code segment register with 0. I think
> the only way to do that is to load the stack with 0:0x7c00, then do a
> far return. I'm not sure of the byte order, though, so you may have
I've found FREEBIOS, and looked at their source code. They had a very
interestin
> Peter Åstrand writes:
PA> mov bx, 0x7c00 ; Buffer
[...]
PA> jmp 0x7c00 ; Jump to bootsector
PA> What conditions must be met before one can load a bootsector,
PA> besides DL loaded with current drive?
Your code does not deal with the segment registers. You cannot load
to just any
> > There seems to be some kind och floppydisk related problem with Compaq
> > computers.
>
> That should be due to a bug in Compaq BIOS, but I don't know what
> causes the potential bug. Can you investigate what is the cause?
Yes, I can try.
/Peter Astrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Peter Åstrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Floppy-problems w/ Compaq
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 13:27:39 +0200 (MET DST)
> There seems to be some kind och floppydisk related problem with Compaq
> computers.
That should be due to a bug in Compaq BIOS, but I don't know what
causes the potentia
Hello, Peter!
> The Grub-util binary segfaults if compiled on a RedHat 6.0 system, and
> running on a RH 5.X. Is this a known bug?
Yes, it is. But it is not GRUB to blame. See an impressive example at
http://www.redhat.com/knowledgebase/glibccompat/example.html
Binary compatability for GNU Lib
The Grub-util binary segfaults if compiled on a RedHat 6.0 system, and
running on a RH 5.X. Is this a known bug?
/Peter Astrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
There seems to be some kind och floppydisk related problem with Compaq
computers. I've first noticed the problem when pressing TAB for listing
devices. The output was:
Possible disks are: (fd0)
and then the computer hangs. If I try chainloader=(hd everything works OK.
Also, trying to run in
