Subject: Re: How to run netboot_3c90xb.com?
To: Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET>
From: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/30/2004 02:07:36
On Sunday 29 August 2004 23:49, Miles Nordin wrote:
> >>>>> "cmh" == Charles M Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com> writes:
>     >> I knew netboot_3c90xb.com has a different entry point than
>     >> 0x100 as dosboot.com, which I could run from DOS.
>
>    cmh> Normally it would be programmed into an EPROM and run by the
>    cmh> BIOS as a BIOS extension at boot time.
>
> Are you thinking of the .rom version?  He's asking about the .com
> version.

Huh?  What .com version?  There is no support for such a thing in the source 
tree.

If you just simply rename the file, it won't work.  The real work is done by 
entering a repointed INT 19 vector from the BIOS, which will not happen if 
you're already running DOS/Windows.