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Re: dding floppy30.fs to a hard drive?

> No it won't, because the biosboot code assumes /boot in fixed 
locations,
> put in there by installboot(8). These correspondend of
>  Drive (0x00 = floppy)
>  Cylinder
>  Head
>  Sector
>  Number of (continuous) sectors to load
> 
> So it will fail, (mostly) because the Drive is not 0x80.
> 

Ok, so can I set the drive to 0xwhateveranidedriveis, and the CHS to 
whatever the CHS on the drive is in the Makefile for the floppies, and 
then it should work?

Thanks
Adam