Well, I'm lost in a lot of emails and I don't know if I've sent you this,
but there is a routine made by Dr. Richard L. Dubs (www.erols.com/rld):
"Unfortunately, the HP200LX boots its operating system from ROM; it has no
need to boot from either a floppy disk or a hard disk. For this reason, the
200LX does not provide the BIOS service (called INT13) for reading from a
hard disk. Since MINIX uses this service when it boots, I wanted to provide
this service. By the way, even after the boot process is over, MINIX allows
you to continue to use this BIOS service to read from a hard disk.
The program INT13.BIN provided in my software package is the INT13 Hard Disk
Service and the batch file BOOT.BAT installs it on the 200LX. (My program
requires the PCMCIA card be in the I/O mode; I am certain that somebody
could write BIOS INT13 services to use the PCMCIA card in memory-mapped mode
if they so desired.)
Note that my INT13 BIOS service does not provide ALL the INT13 services; it
only provides the ones that MINIX needs to boot and run (Read, Write, Reset,
and Disk Parameters)."
Well, I'm trying to use these routines with BOOTELKS.
Isaque.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Murn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> On Tue, 4 May 1999, Araujo, Isaque G. wrote:
>
> > Shane, I don't know if you read my old mails which I've sent to Alistair
> > Riddoch and to the ELKS-list, but this already exists (BOOTELKS by
> Steffen
> > Gabel), what is need is a effort to change this code for don't write any
> > VII, just start ELKS. The wheel is almost complete.
>
> No, this is the whole problem, we DO need to change the VII, because DOS
> changes some of the hooks, such as int 13 (apparently). Without changing
> this back to BIOS, there's no telling what might happen.
>
> Davey
