>> AFAIR CHS FAT32 FreeDOS sector does > No, it doesn't: check it out. It overwrites es and di quite soon indeed: > real_start: cld > cli > sub ax, ax > mov ds, ax > mov bp, 0x7c00 > > mov ax, 0x1FE0 > mov es, ax > mov si, bp > mov di, bp > Same applies to the other two FreeDOS bootsectors. Ok. I was wrong. > >> > Regarding that "biosdrive", it would add more >> > complexity to what already is a non-simple system. I'd say that either >> > this mapping gets done automagically >> biosdrive is necessary only when authomatic routines fail (no or wrong >> result) > The point is writing the automatic routine you described so that > biosdrive is not required. > If this was reliable then yes but as it will never be user must be able to override it > -- > -- Lazy, Oblivious, Recurrent Disaster -- Habbit > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > >
-- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
