On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:17:46 +0200 Koala GNU <koala.gnu@tiscalinet.it> wrote:
| Hi, Riley,
|
| thanks for your reply.
|
| I noticed the native boot code for floppy is not supported any more. In
| fact in the current code display a message and reboot the machine after
| the press of a key.
|
| But I am interested on how the old native boot code worked.
|
| Do you know if there is a particular reason why the boot sector is moved
| to 0x9000:0 (excuse me if I repeat the question, but I need help on this)?
Why do you need to know?
IIRC, it's because the code being loaded also (usually) is written
as a boot loader also, and boot loaders often assume that they are
loaded at 0:7c00. (disclaimer: it's been a few years since I worked
on boot loaders.)
| I hope someone else can point me a site where is reported the format of
| the floppy parameter table at address 0x0:0x78.
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/rbinter/id/55/24.html (for one)
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