Re: Anyone out there Single disk boot Elks?

[Chad Page]

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Sean Mathews wrote:

> 
>  Just wondering if anyone out there had any luck with
> doing a single boot Elks floppy.. I read the faq
> and tried the lilo method and am currently digging
> into lilo's ASM code for boot.b and am finding that
> it does not seem run on a 286. I definitly need
> a single boot solution as the micro controler only
> has a single floppy and no HD. Anyway i hope someone
> is out there. 

        Check out .74pre1, which has a combined boot/root disk... it
worked on a Asus-based box I had handy, but I don't know if it has any
386+ opcodes or not... Al and Robert would know.

        - Chad,
        who did remember the minix bootloader having 286 opcodes some time
back...

> 
>  Regards 
>   Sean Mathews Nu Tech CTO
> 
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