Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!tukki.jyu.fi!jyu.fi!suhonen From: suhonen@kunto.jyu.fi (Timo Suhonen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: OS in ROM/RAM & viruses (was: Re: TOS 2.0) Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 90 10:44:20 GMT References: <1990Nov06.213749.13906@ecst.csuchico.edu> <1990Nov14.140643.15703@cs.utk.edu> Sender: news@tukki.jyu.fi (News articles) Organization: University of Jyvaskyla Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: andrew@cs.utk.edu's message of 14 Nov 90 14:06:43 GMT In article <1990Nov14.140643.15703@cs.utk.edu> andrew@cs.utk.edu (Andrew Krzywdzinski) writes: That's interesting... I happen to have a hard disk too, and my floppy is viri-protected (I assume by a program in the boot sector) by George Woodside's vkiller. Anyway, even though I boot from the hd, it always executes the boot sector on the floppy ! One of us has to be wrong, then... If I got you right, your system (if floppy inserted in drive) executes floppy's boot sector and then boots from hd, right? I have not tested that... Maybe mine do the same thing... I just thought that if it excutes boot sector from a floppy, it can't anymore go on booting from hd. Assume that your boot sector on a floppy has code to load disk-based TOS (really old one) from a floppy. Will your system still somehow boot from hd? How? -- Timo Suhonen I am logged in, therefore I am suhonen@funic.funet.fi suhonen@kunto.jyu.fi Moderator for ftp site funic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) Atari ST dir