RE: [Etherboot-developers] No simple loading from IDE...

[Michael G. <mge...@so...>]

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Timothy Legge wrote:

> > What were the issues (so I don't repeat any mistakes)?
> 
> I only know my issues.  Ken pulled out boot1a.s so I assume that he had more issues than just mine.  
> 
> When I created a boot floppy, a setting in boot1a.S was not getting updated.  Apparently, the code was susposed to create the floppy image calculate the size update boot1a.S and recompile and write to the floppy.
> 
> If you can find a way to fix that on my systems, I would be happy enough to go back to boot1a.S.  However, I don't know what other issues existed in that implamentation.  Although I seem to remember that Ken mentioned that it depended on BIOS calls that may not be implemented everwhere.

OK, thanks.  I'll take a look at the code, but I think it might be worth 
while to ditch the hybrid solution that boot1a.S presents and keep the 
floppy and HD prefixs seperate.

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