Wenzel Jakob writes:
>
> Am Thu, 29 Apr 1999 schrieb David Murn:
> >On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Wenzel Jakob wrote:
> >
> >> my palmtop boots from DOS from ROM (argh) and i can't create a boot disk
> >> for generating the ints.bin file. i need a dos-version of this program
> >> or perhaps somebody can explain me how to generate this file and I'll
> >> write the program.
> >
> >I'm guessing that it's simply a dump of your vector table, in which case,
> >you should be able to just write a little .com file, to create a file, and
> >copy 0x400 from 0:0000 into a file. If you want, I could send you a
> >little .com file to do this (assuming that's what needs to be done).
> >
> >Davey
>
> It would be nice if you could do this.
> But i think the file has to have a header ...
> when i view a boot.bin file on my PII theres
> a "BOOTELKS" string somewhere in the file.
>
We could really do with a tool that looks at the vector interrupt table
so we can try and sort out how to boot ELKS on these strange palmtop
machines. It may be possible to load ELKS from DOS without replacing the
VII on some machines.
Al