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From: jai@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Benchiao Jai)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Auto HD boot for PC
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.173638.13081@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 91 17:36:38 GMT
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We have a version of Minix here which is compiled under MS-DOS using
Turbo C 2.0.  It runs as an MS-DOS application which takes over all
control of the machine, but ctrl-alt-del brings you back to where you
were in MS-DOS instead of rebooting the machine.

This version uses MS-DOS files as Minix file systems, so you don't
need to create new partitions for Minix, nor do you need to care
about SCSI/ESDI/RLL... whatever the disk controller might be.
MS-DOS int 21h is being used for this purpose.

However, it was based on Minix 1.3, not 1.5.  Because when we made this
modification last year, 1.5 wasn't out there (from PH) yet.  We are now
waiting for PH to ship us our order, then we can proceed to do this on
1.5.

If anyone is interested, send me mail and I'll try to send it to you.

Benchiao Jai
jai@cs.nyu.edu