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

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ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:

> >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.

It also computes the checksum of the rom image at least that is
what I recall. 

> 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.

Interesting...

If we can get etherboot.dsk to work reliably we will definitely have
something.

Eric