Subject: Re: Boot loader limitations
To: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polder.ubc.kun.nl>
From: VaX#n8 <vax@linkdead.paranoia.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/31/1996 08:03:08
In message <199601292221.XAA01166@polder.ubc.kun.nl>, Olaf Seibert writes:
>I've been looking at the source of the bootloader code in 1.1.  When it
>asks you for the boot device, it only allows unit numbers 0 or 1. I
>think this is too limiting, since I recently ran into a situation where
>this is not sufficient.

I thought this was a limitation of the BIOS, not of the bootloader code
itself.

The second-guessing does sound a bit squirelly (read: strange).

Disclaimer: I haven't looked real deep into this yet.