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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The REAL virus problem
Message-ID: <7993@g.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 7 Jan 88 07:30:50 GMT
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In article <3091@cbmvax.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes:

(Regarding the "boot vector" that allows a program to take over the
machine before the workbench boot code can...)

>Uh, guys ?  Look in the RM Kernal manual , Appendix L in the white
>ones, (not sure where in the A-W ones, but its there)
>, called Disk Format information. Look at the first section, called 
>The Boot Process.  This is not quite what I'd call a secret.

I've got the Addison Wesley "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Exec"
manual on my lap.  On page C-8 begins a section called "THE BOOT PROCESS".

This section describes what happens once the ROM kernel starts reading
in the boot sectors off disk.  I see no mention whatsoever of a memory
location that execution can be optionally handed to before it starts
reading the disk.

Perhaps someone can enlighten me as to exactly where in this section
the memory location is documented.

Sean
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