Subject: RE: How to write NetBSD boot blocks to DOS disk?
To: None <JohnAM@datastorm.com>
From: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/02/1996 12:29:54
> There is a NetBSD bootloader that I found, a long time ago, that will
> allow you to boot into NetBSD from DOS! As a matter of fact, you don't
> even need to have a bootblock written to the NetBSD partition, though I
> highly recommend having one there in case of trouble. I don't know who
> did it, but I love it. If you and others are interested, I can make it
> available, with instructions, via FTP.
The changes to the bootblocks to make them build a DOS executable
containing the boot code are sitting in the GNATS database,
apparently unprocessed, and they've been sitting there for quite
a while. The stuff is also available from
ftp://ftp.unit.no/pub/NetBSD/...
somewhere (can't tell right now, I'm offline).
The modification to produce a DOS bootblock executable was done
by Tor Egge, I did the packaging.
- Havard