Re: dding floppy30.fs to a hard drive?

[Thorsten Glaser <nirwana@ecce.homeip.net>]

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>> 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?

Read my other post about it, and then forget the idea, except
you have a hard disc with 18 sectors per track, 2 tracks per cylinder.
(Maybe this is compensated by the combination of the following:
 - floppies don't have a partition table, disklabel uses LBA
 - installboot writes the new parametres to disc
If this is so, my other post's idea would work.)

And if you aren't talking about x86-32, forget me... sorry for that.

Thorsten
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