In message <199811110616.BAA18946@jekyll.piermont.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" writ
es:
>I suppose the real question is one of how the BIOS presents the device 
>to client programs.

Very Magic.

On most modern BIOS's, it shows up as drive A.

>BTW, there is nothing shockingly special about the boot code. Its all
>just C with some assembler hooks. Have a look in arch/i386/stand/ to
>see how it all fits together. You can easily build custom boot blocks
>and add debugging code in.

Oh, okay.  :)  I'll have to add it to my projects list.  If I could get
these booting, I could remove a lot of useless hardware from my collection.
I'd also be less worried about one machine I have which has no regular
floppy...  ;)

-s