Subject: Re: Building a boot floppy
To: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>
From: Brian de Alwis <bdealwis@Newbridge.COM>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/16/1995 12:59:58
> Oops, the NetBSD boot program does use the BIOS. Perhaps a special
> version of the boot program could be made that would know about your
> SB-16 SCSI could be made, but I don't have any equipment like it to
> develop such a beast.
Just off the top of my head, you could transform the boot blocks to
a DOS program. Make sure your kernel was configured with the root
on sd0.
Of course, you'd have to do it from bare DOS.
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