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From: "Weiqi Gao" <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>
To: <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>,
        "OpenDOS discussion list" <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: [opendos] LOADLINing OpenDOS???
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 08:24:06 -0600
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mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wrote:
 
>Hmmm.  Has anyone tried loading OpenDOS from within DOS 6.22 with
>LOADLIN?  I doubt it would work, but it may be worth a try no?
>
>LOADLIN.EXE C:\IBMBIO.SYS ?????
>
>Just a dumb suggestion from someone who is very tired and ready for 12
>hours of sleep.

It shouldn't take too long to write one.  According to the "How It Works --
MBR" from the grub documentation, all you need to do is to load the boot
sector that you saved to a file into memory location 0000:7c00, and jmp to
it.

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Weiqi Gao
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