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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!penny!mary.cs.fredonia.edu!mazumdar From: mazumdar@mary.cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: What makes a floppy bootable? Message-ID: <1993Mar25.173426.13819@penny.cs.fredonia.edu> Date: 25 Mar 93 17:34:26 GMT Sender: news@penny.cs.fredonia.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Math / CS, State Univ. of N. Y. College at Fredonia Lines: 26 X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3 Would some kind soul explain the boot process for 386BSD to me. I have it running with real partitioning and can boot DOS or 386BSD using bootinst. Does the PC look for a particular sector on the disk/ette to find the boot/strap code or an offset to it? As I have no backup device I would like to make my own dist.fs and fixit.fs floppies with my own kernel, disktab, etc. I could edit an existing one but it would be more of an education to build one. A related question. My 3-1/2" drive is configured as my b drive. Is it possible to make a machine bootable from b? I could then have a larger fixit.fs. TIA -- Jin Mazumdar (internet:) mazumdar@mary.cs.fredonia.edu >>> Dept. Of Math and C. S. <<< >>> State University of New York College at Fredonia <<< >>> Fredonia, N.Y. 14063 (716) 673 3459 <<<