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From: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Shoelace, Boot sector, Partition sector
Message-ID: <3275@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 25 Oct 90 05:02:59 GMT
References: <34243@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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In <34243@nigel.ee.udel.edu> TEMARI%ECAMV1.dnet.ge.com@vm1.nodak.edu writes:

>According to this code it expects that the partition entry be passed to it
>in DS:SI not ES:SI.  What is actually correct???  My own homebrew version
>of the partition selection at boot up time has ES and DS the same when the
>boot sector is loaded and run.

>What is the official parameters passed to the boot sector??????

When I wrote the code, I got the information for this part by disassembling the
partition table code from a TI machine running Dos < 3.3. Does anyone know if
the parameter passing protocol for the partition boot is written down
somewhere?

Earl
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Earl Chew, Dept of Computer Science, Monash University, Australia 3168
EMAIL: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au PHONE: 03 5655447 FAX: 03 5655146
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