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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1710 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:54:44 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!gemini.oscs.montana.edu!osynw From: osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nathan Williams) Subject: Re: Old Compaq Deskpro problems Message-ID: <1993Feb19.202610.12986@coe.montana.edu> Keywords: n Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Montana State University References: <MCKIM.93Feb18081235@dinah.lerc.nasa.gov> <C2oGEv.44r@moxie.hou.tx.us> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 20:26:10 GMT Lines: 27 In article <C2oGEv.44r@moxie.hou.tx.us> hackney@moxie.hou.tx.us (Greg Hackney) writes: >mckim@dinah.lerc.nasa.gov (Jim McKim) writes: > >> The original installation to the hard disk [Compaq 386/20] was from >> one of the bootables at wotan.compaq.com. >> Can anybody describe what was done to create the bootable kernels at >> wotan? > >The dist.fs on wotan is the stock 0.1 release, with the exception that >the first 1024 bytes, the primary bootblock, has been modified. The >kernel was not modified. > >The bootblock modification was done by Akihiro Higasi in Japan >(higasi@mlab.nttdocomo.co.jp), and given to me by Tom Vijlbrief >(tom@izf.tno.nl): "What Higasi stated (if I remember correctly) was >that he replaced two nops with jmp . + 1 because the NOPS sets the >condition code register. - Tom." The patchkit bootables on agate (& mirrors) contain this fix, in case anyone was wondering. Nate -- osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | Still trying to find a good reason for nate@cs.montana.edu | these 'computer' things. Personally, home #: (406) 586-0579 | I don't think they'll catch on - Don H.