On Mon, 3 May 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote:
> The problem is that the only disk driver we have working yet is the one
> that uses BIOS routines to access the disk. After DOS is loaded the int 13h
> entry in the VII which initially points to this BIOS routine is replaced.
>
> BootELKS gets round this by having an image of the VII before DOS was
> loaded, and loading this into the VII before the kernel is started, giving
> the kernel access to the BIOS routines.
Oh, in that case it's easy, we simply write a little chunk of code to put
at the start of a disk, which simply copies the VII to some point later in
the disk, to be retrieved by a DOS program.
Davey
