Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bruce!cechew From: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Shoelace, Boot sector, Partition sector Message-ID: <3284@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> Date: 28 Oct 90 20:52:22 GMT References: <34243@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <3275@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <124439@linus.mitre.org> Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia Lines: 15 In <124439@linus.mitre.org> gwr@linus.mitre.org (Gordon W. Ross) writes: >There is no mention of any other registers being initialized by >the primary boot program. (In article <34243@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, >Michael Temari mentioned >that bootlace expected "the drive in register dl" to be passed too.) Assuming that only DS:SI are passed, how does the boot code work out which drive is being bootstrapped? (This is why I passed the drive number in dl.) Earl -- Earl Chew, Dept of Computer Science, Monash University, Australia 3168 EMAIL: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au PHONE: 03 5655447 FAX: 03 5655146 ----------------------------------------------------------------------