Subject: Re: Just Checking
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
List: port-arc
Date: 03/27/2001 16:23:05
In message <200103271514.f2RFEWl09210@mirage.ceres.dti.ne.jp> Izumi Tsutsui writes:
: In <87ofupjs6b.wl@alicia.a-r.org>
: ur@a-r.org wrote:
: 
: > It would be better making bootloader rather than copying kernel to
: > system partition.
: 
: I'm tring to make bootloader, but can the ARC BIOS open raw disk device?
: Bios_Open("multi(0)disk(0)", 0, &fd) does not work.
: ("No such device" is returned) 

That should work if you have a IDE disk.  Otherwise, it will fail
because you aren't opening the SCSI device.  The SCSI device has a
different path than that.  Opening "C:" might work better for you,
since that's supposed to be an alias for the first disk drive.

Many Jazz based bioses have issues with accessing the raw device.
However, they can't be too bad or ARCINST.EXE wouldn't work.

Warner