Re: [Etherboot-developers] Etherboot 5.1.7 (development) released

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>The floppy loader was checking checksums etc, and it was non-trivial
>enough that I simply have not done the work to make that case work.

Hmm, I think you mean the bit where it's looking for signature 55AA at
the beginning of the file? I think that and getting the block count from
the third byte are the only things it expects in the ROM image.

I had a look at it and it uses dh,dl to pass the block count,drive
number) to the xread.1 subroutine. We'll have to find a way to pass a
word.