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From: adam@veda.is (Adam David)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Boot image too big
Message-ID: <C76sAL.II5@veda.is>
Date: 17 May 93 19:46:54 GMT
References: <1993May17.160407.29361@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland
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peckham@drei.enet.dec.com (Alan D. Peckham) writes:

>Has anyone made adjustments to the floppy boot code which
>will allow it to load larger systems?

More importantly, has anyone succeeded in getting the kernel to run when
linked to load at 1MB?

Julian's bootblocks already support booting from *_any_* (?) device known
to the BIOS at boot time.

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adam@veda.is