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From: perv@flash.emf.mcgill.ca (Irwin Roger Gibson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Altering boot diskette in DOS environment
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Date: 29 Jul 92 21:35:39 GMT
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A few days ago I posted an article asking for help in making
the distribution diskette under DOS. Okay, I know I can compile
a new kernel with BSD. But what happens if BSD won't boot on your
machine? I assume before 386BSD and Linux was up and running, some
work must have been done under DOS.
There must be some way it can be done. I tried the bootables
on agate, but no luck. Does anyone have a bootable, which writes
to the screen at every point, from the very start, to the very end?
When I am forced to do a hard reset, my CMOS values are all scrambled.
Whatever ideas you have would be appreciated. Thanks.
Irwin Gibson
perv@flash.emf.mcgill.ca
perv@emf.lan.mcgill.ca